Lettuce Soup
Total time: 25 minutes
Why not? We make soup of cabbage, spinach and other greens. Lettuce Soup is be a bit more delicate, depending on what types of lettuce used. I would suggest using dark green varieties and not adding any purple - it could be a strange color. It can be made ahead and served cold, straight from the fridge. I used the outer leaves of heads intended for the salad.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups chicken stock, 340gr, 12oz
- 4 cups shredded lettuce, loosely packed reserve a bit for garnish, 144gr, 5oz
- 1 - 2 tbs fresh tarragon
- 1 small - medium potato about 1/2 cup chopped, 85gr, 3oz
- 1 shallot or 1/2 onion, 45gr, 1.6oz
- 2 tsp olive oil, 9gr, .32oz
- 4 tsp plain yogurt, sour cream, 22gr, .8oz
- 1 slice bacon, fried crisp and crumbled, 8gr, .3oz
Instructions:
- Chop shallot and potato.
- Heat oil in saucepan and sauté shallot for 2 minutes.
- Add potato, stock and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer 15 minutes.
- Chop or shred the lettuce.
- Snip tarragon.
- Uncover the saucepan and stir in the lettuce and tarragon.
- When lettuce has wilted (almost immediately) remove from heat and purée in a blender. Set aside to cool to room temperature or refrigerate for colder.
- Fry bacon until crisp. Remove, drain on paper towel and crumble.
- When ready to serve ladle soup into bowls, dollop 2 tsp of yogurt or sprinkle some shredded cheese onto each serving, sprinkle with bacon, a bit more shredded lettuce and serve.
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| Nutrition Information Recipe serves 2 Entire Recipe / per serving Calories: 280 / 140 Total Carbohydrates: 29 / 14.5 Dietary Fiber: 5 / 2.5 Total Fat: 14 / 7 Saturated Fat: 3 / 1.5 Cholesterol: 23 / 11.5 Protein: 12 / 6 Calcium: 126 / 63 Sodium: 782 / 391 |
General Technical Details and Disclaimer:
Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.
I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it. I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.
My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/