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Lettuce Soup

Ingredients

  • 50g/20z butter
  • 1 medium-sized onion, finely chopped
  • 3 medium peeled and diced floury potatoes
  • About 1200 ml/2 pints vegetable or chicken stock
  • Roughly chopped lettuce leaves
  • 250g/8 oz mange tout (if you have a glut of these too, destringed and chopped a small bunch of chervil or marjoram)
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper
  • 6 fl oz single cream (optional but makes the soup velvety and rich)
  • Chopped chives or chervil, to serve


Method

  • Melt the butter and stew the onion and potato gently, covered, for twenty minutes without browning.
  • Add the stock and bring to the boil then add the lettuce, mange tout if using, and choice of herbs, season to taste, and simmer for ten minutes.
  • Cool slightly then liquidize. Reheat before serving adding most of the cream without allowing the soup to boil. Serve with a swirl of cream and a sprinkling of chives or chervil.

This soup freezes very well so can be made in larger batches. Leave out the cream if freezing and add when it has defrosted and is being reheated.

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