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Springtime Lettuce Soup
A pale green purée of whole lettuce heads simmered briefly in stock over a base of sweated onion and potato. It tastes rather like broccoli soup or a light vichyssoise and is good hot or cold.
- YieldServes 4 · About 1.4 litres
- Hands-on30 min
- Total46 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
- 30 gbutter or olive oil
- 100 gonion, diced
- 150 gpotato, diced
- 3 gfine salt
- 1 Lvegetable or chicken stock
- 2 clovesgarlic, diced
- ½ tspfreshly ground black pepper
- 1 headlettuce (about 400 g), or arugula, pea shoots or spinach, torn or cut into wide strips
To enrich
- 240 mlwhole milk (or 120 ml cream)optional
To finish
- to tasteground coriander or nutmegoptional
- to tastegrated cheddar (hot) or sour cream and chives (cold)optional
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