Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  1                     onion
  1                cup  red lentils
  1                cup  chopped mushrooms -- optional
  1                     butternut squash -- (or one can pumpkin
                        puree)
  1                cup  orange juice
                        one lemon -- optional , juice of
  2          teaspoons  sugar -- optional
                        veggie broth -- (1 1/2 cups or so)
     1/2      teaspoon  cumin
     1/2      teaspoon  coriander
  1           teaspoon  cinnamon
     3/4      teaspoon  powdered ginger
     1/2      teaspoon  powdered mustard
                        cayenne to taste
                        salt to taste

Preparation:

Roast the squash by cutting in half, removing seeds and stringy membrane, place cut side down on baking sheet, pierce skin with a fork a few times, cook at 350 for 40 minutes or until soft. Chop onions and caramelize in a soup pot. Add broth as needed. (When onions are done put in mushrooms and saute until liquid is released and cooked down.) Rinse lentils. For quicker soup soak them in the broth. Scoop squash flesh away from skin and puree with orange juice. After onions are caramelized (and mushrooms are done) dump all ingredients into the onion cooking pot. Simmer gently until lentils are cooked. If using the squash you may wish to add onion juice to cut the sweetness, if using canned pumpkin you may wish to add sugar to add to the sweetness.

Nutritional Information:

979 Calories (kcal); 3g Total Fat; (2% calories from fat); 22g Protein; 248g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 79mg Sodium