Cream of Lettuce Soup Recipe

Free Recipe Cream of Lettuce Soup

Recipe Type: Free Soup Recipes
Recipe Preparation: cook
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Recipe Serves: 4

Ingredients for Cream of Lettuce Soup Recipe

1 lb Boston lettuce
1 lg Onion, finely sliced
2 oz Butter
2 oz All-purpose flour
6 tb Clarified butter
4 Slices white bread, crusts
-removed, sliced into cubes
2 Cloves garlic, crushed and
-chopped to a pulp
16 oz Milk
16 oz Chicken stock
Freshly ground salt
Freshly ground white pepper

Cream of Lettuce Soup Preparation

Thoroughly rinse lettuce and remove cores. Heat a soup tureen. Place lettuce leaves in a large, dry saucepan and cook over medium heat for 6 minutes. Into another pan on low heat, place butter, stir in onion, and let cook until soft. Stir in flour, making a roux. Cook 3 minutes while stirring. Stir milk into roux and half of the chicken stock. Remove cooked lettuce from pot, puree in a blender and add to soup. Add rest of chicken stock and cook while stirring for 7 minutes or until thickened. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Pour 4 tb clarified butter into a small frypan and when heated, add cubes of bread, occassionally shaking pan to prevent them from getting too brown. Add another 2 tb clarified butter and garlic cloves. Drain garlic bread croutons on a paper towel. Place on heated serving dish. Strain lettuce soup through a sieve into soup tureen and serve at once with croutons. From Gemini’s MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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