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Lettuce Soup β a spring vegetable full of nutrients
I love spring, when the market stalls are filled with green vegetables, and then ones in a variety of colors start to appear. You know it’s spring when you see people’s gardens full of greens, from green onions, green garlic, lettuce, or even petunia, spinach, tarragon. All these greens are extremely healthy, being full of vitamins.
Green vegetables contain a large amount of vitamin K, an extremely important element for the optimal functioning of brain activity.
In addition to this extremely important vitamin, green vegetables also contain folic acid, which has a decisive role in regulating the level of hemoglobin in the blood.
Also, these vegetables are full of chlorophyll, which oxygenates the body and purifies the liver and maintains the lymphatic system.
The recipe that I propose to you today, Lettuce Soup, does not only contain lettuce, but also other green vegetables such as green onions and green garlic. Having said that, we can conclude that this spring lettuce soup is full of beneficial nutrients for our body and our children.
How I discovered this soup
In Romania, soups can be made from almost anything π and I’m not exaggerating when I say that. Any meat or vegetable can be successfully added into the pot to obtain a delicious soup. This soup was often cooked in my parents’ house as a child. My grandmother was the cook at the time and I fondly remember how excited I was when I knew I was going to delight my senses at lunch with this delicious soup.
I admit, the bacon in its composition was never my favorite ingredient, but the lettuce and omelet were my favorites and the next day grandma had to prepare another portion of omelet because the first one was enjoyed from the first day π
Honestly, so does my daughter Sofia now π She loves the lettuce soup but she chooses the soup, the lettuce and the omelet from the bowl and the bacon is mostly reserved for the adults π Which is not bad at all π. After all, kids don’t need the fat in bacon and it’s okay if they don’t like it.
There are families who consume nettle soup, similar to lettuce soup. I think that’s extremely healthy too, but I’ve never had a culinary attraction for nettles π
I should mention that this lettuce soup has a special creaminess that is due to a mixture of egg yolks, milk, sour cream, salt and pepper, which is often used at the end of lots of Romanian soups. You’ll find this mixture used in many of my soup recipes, so youβll probably get used to it π
All I can tell you is that although it may seem strange to some of you to make a soup with green vegetables, scrambled eggs and bacon, I beg you to give it a try. You will see that it is absolutely delicious, light and filling at the same time.
So, I kindly invite you to follow the steps of the complete recipe below, and then tell me your honest opinion about this dish. It may not be to everyone’s taste, but that’s normal.
I hug you with love and wish you a wonderful day with your loved ones π and this tasty Lettuce Soup.
Full Recipe – Lettuce Soup
Ingredients
Lettuce Soup β A super tasty spring soup
Equipment
- 1 Pan
- 1 Pot
Ingredients
- 2-3 pcs heads of lettuce
- 4 pcs eggs
- 200 ml of milk
- 100 gr sour cream
- 3-4 pcs green onions
- 3-4 pcs green garlic 2 cloves of dried garlic can be used if you donβt have green garlic
- Pork bacon or unrendered smoked pork fat
- Salt
- Pepper
- Vinegar
- Water
Instructions
- This soup is an extremely simple dish to prepare, but you must know from the beginning that it is based on 3 main stages:a. Tempering and boiling the main ingredients;b. Preparation of an omelet that will later be added to the soup;c. Preparation of a mixture between 2 egg yolks, milk and sour cream, which will be poured into the soup at the end of the boiling process.
- So, letβs start with frying the bacon. We will first cut the bacon into thin slices or small cubes, according to preference. We will add the bacon into the pot in which we will later boil the whole soup and let it fry for about 10 minutes. There is no need to add oil or fat to the pot as the bacon will fry in its own fat once it melts from the heat;
- Using a strainer, we will remove the fried bacon and put it in a bowl for later use.
- Add finely chopped onion and garlic into the pot. If you are using dried garlic, you can crush it with a garlic press
- After the greens are roasted for a few minutes, add the well-washed lettuce, torn BY HAND. I make this clarification because if you cut the lettuce with a knife, it will taste bitter.HINT: To make sure that the lettuce clean, I wash it 2-3 times in water, using a generous bowl, and then I dry it using a special lettuce drainer.
- If the pot is large enough, Iβd recommend sauteing and stirring gently with a wooden spatula to allow the lettuce to smother a bit in that fat. If you donβt have space, no problem, you can skip this step.
- Add water over the lettuce so that the water is at the same level as the lettuce, the latter will soften during cooking and will significantly decrease its volume.
- Let the lettuce boil for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare the omelet.
- For this, mix 2 whole eggs and 2 egg whites, add 100 ml of milk, salt and pepper and mix energetically, until you get the composition for the omelet.
- Pour the mixture into a pan with a little oil and let the omelet cook, preferably covering the pan with a lid. After a few minutes, turn the omelet on the other side and cook for a few more minutes.
- Let the omelet cool a little and then, with the help of a spatula (I use the spatulas from Tupperware), cut the omelet into relatively equal pieces.
- With the remaining two yolks, prepare a composition using a bowl: add 2 yolks, the rest of the milk, the 100 g of sour cream, salt and pepper. Mix the mixture well and refrigerate until ready to use.
- Once the lettuce in the soup is completely boiled, add the omelet cut into pieces and the previously fried bacon. Add 1-2 tablespoons of vinegar (to taste) and leave on fire for another 5 minutes.
- Finally, remove the mixture from Step 12 from the refrigerator and using a ladle, add some hot soup into the bowl, then insert one ladle of the mixture over the soup and continue this process until you pour the entire composition into the pot with soup. Let the soup boil for exactly 1 MINUTE, then turn off the heat and leave the pot covered with a lid until serving time.
Nutrition
Enjoy this Lettuce Soup! π
I hope the result is delicious! I will let you know π
Best of luck