About the Recipe
Lettuce soup, better and more hearty that you’d think. For a light meal or starter lettuce soup is perfect and not to mention inexpensive to create. You can thicken with some Velouté or cream, even add some rustic croutons.
Ingredients
30g butter
150g 1 medium onion
230g 1 head butter lettuce
120g 2 handfuls spinach
500g 2 cups chicken stock
240g 1 cup milk
130g 1/2 cup thickened cream
TO SERVE
Rustic croutons
Drizzle of thickened cream
Chopped chives
Salt & pepper
Method
Roughly chop the lettuce and spinach and place in a steamer tray ready to wilt.
Dice the onion and add to a large pot and cook onion until translucent, you can add a little salt and pepper to begin seasoning the dish.
Steam the lettuce and spinach, only for 4 minutes.
Once the lettuce and spinach are wilted add to the pot with the onions and lower to lowest heat setting
Pour in the chicken stock (vegetable if you prefer this dish vegetarian).
Once the pot begins to simmer turn off and with a stick mixer blend the lettuce and onion until you have created specks of lettuce. You don’t want to completely have the lettuce and spinach disappear.
Return the heat to low and pour in the milk or cream.
To further thicken the soup you can stir in some velouté.
Plate up with a drizzle of cream or homemade rustic croutons. Create a velouté to thicken the soup instead of cream. To enhance the taste sprinkle some chopped chives, salt and pepper.