Today we offer you a delicious romaine lettuce soup recipe, as it is done in Transylvania, with scrambled eggs and fried bacon., and served with sour cream. I recommend you to try this easy and tasty romaine lettuce soup recipe.
It is a spring-summer recipe that is made of any kind lettuce. In our family, the most common is butter lettuce but today we use romaine lettuce.
Contents
We’re preparing the ingredients
For this recipe, we need two pieces of bigger romaine lettuce.
We need four eggs, two cloves of garlic, about 200 grams of bacon and dill.
The first time we breaking the lettuce leaves, and wash them one by one.
After that cut the leaves into not too small pieces.
Let’s start cooking the romaine lettuce soup
In a soup pot, we heat 50 ml of sunflower oil in which we put 3 tablespoons of wheat flour.
Let the flour squeeze a little, stirring constantly until it gets a yellowish colour. This will have the role of thickening the soup a little. Seasoning with one teaspoon of sea salt and one teaspoon of freshly ground pepper.
Then add a spoonful of sweet paprika and a little water to avoid burning paprika and flour.
Leave a minute to homogenise well, then put the cut romaine lettuce in the pot.
We were mixing and putting the water to cover the lettuce well, I put about two litters of water.
Now put the two cloves of sliced garlic.
Let’s boil about 20 minutes, then it’s tasty if the lettuce is not boiled, it’s a bit crispy.
Until the soup boils, we start to fry the eggs, because in Transylvania the lettuce soup is made with omelette and it is particularly tasty.
First, we put the sliced bacon in a pan to fry.
Until the bacon fries, break the four eggs into a bowl.
Season with salt and pepper and mix well (I used the fork) until homogenised.
We bake the bacon until it becomes golden and a bit crispy, after which we poured eggs over.
Roast the eggs until they become an omelette.
Finishing the soup
When the soup is almost ready, put the omelette, cut into bigger pieces.
At the end we put the chopped dill, boil for two minutes, and the soup is ready.
This soup can be served both warm and cold with sour cream.
Romaine Lettuce Soup
Ingredients
- 2 PCs romaine lettuce
- 200 g smoked bacon
- 4 PCs eggs
- 2 cloves garlic
- 3 teaspoon salt
- 3 teaspoon ground pepper
- 1 tbsp
sweet paprika - 3 tbsp wheat flour
- 1 bunch dill
- 50 ml sunflower oil
Instructions
- We break the lettuce leaves, wash them well and cut them.
- Heat the sunflower oil in the soup pot, and put the wheat flour to frying. Season with salt and pepper and stir until it gets a yellowish colour.
- Put a tablespoon of sweet paprika and a little water. After one minute, put the lettuce, the sliced garlic and two litter of the water. Boil about 20 minutes
- Until the soup boils, put the bacon in a frying pan. After the bacon fried and became a bit crispy, we poured eggs over and made an omelette.
- Slice the omelette and put it in the soup together with the chopped dill.
- Served with soured cream.
I recommend you try this easy and tasty romaine lettuce soup recipe, or the delicious cabbage soup with pork meat.
Good appetite.
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Hi Timea! This cabbage soup with pork meat looks really yummy! Looking at the pictures has encouraged me to prepare it tonight. There will be some close relatives visiting us from Maramureş and they love this type of soup. I hadn’t prepared it in many years and there were a few elements in the recipe I had to refresh. It has been good reading them here. Thanks!
Thanks for the appreciation Henry, as coincidence, as you see the soup is served on the plate received from Maramures.
Yum! I haven’t tried this soup before but I will surely cook it this week because it looks really tasty, the ingridients aren’t hard to find and most of all the preparation and procedure is easy to follow. Here in our country, we don’t usually have lettuce as the star ingridient of soup. We usually have cabbage or potato. It’s interesting for me to know about this unique Transylvanian dish and cook it for my family. I also appreciate that you added pictures so we can be guided on how the consistency and texture should look while cooking the soup.… Read more »
I recommend trying this easy and delicious summer recipe.
thanks for the recipe, and a great idea. I made this recipe with several variations, and it was so incredibly delicious. I used a few more potatoes, celery, and a small package of deli ham, Lettuce is such a good filler, and a healthy one. Next time, I think I might reduce the amount of broth and some some whipping cream. Thanks for sharing.
Good idea!
Wow, this looks absolutely delicious. I’ve never tried cooking with lettuce, being much more used to it as a raw salad ingredient but I know it is often cooked in Chinese cuisine, so this recipe is fascinating. The use of eggs in this way, turning them into an omelette and then putting that in the soup sounds light but comforting. Thank you for sharing such an interesting and tasty looking recipe.
Another day, another brilliant recipes for another soup. Yes, this site has made me to start neglecting my recipes books because I lobe the foods that I have tried as a result of this site and I really want to try more. Well, romaine Lettuce soup seems rather strange to me though, but that would still not deter me from getting along with preparing it. Thanks. I would like to ask what it can be served with?
It is used as such, as a light summer soup. Thanks, Ramos!
This is very interesting to learn. Such simple ingredients and easy was to make this really lovely meal. I have never seen someone make lettuce soup before but I’m a lover of bacon and in any meal I find it, I believe its going to be a really nice meal. I’ll make this soup for lunch for my family this weekend. Thanks for sharing.
Chloe the recipe is definitely delicious.
Yeah! I saw this particular soup in a book but they didn’t put the procedure to it, only the name. My cutiousity to learn about it is why I got here.This romaine lettuce soup looks rather great and even though I don’t know how to prepare meals but I will surelybsuggest this to my wife to malke it for me. The procedure and everything has been imputed here, all that is needer is to get the ingredients and I can do that before she is back. Thanks
With pleasure Rodger.
Wow, I seem to have found new best delicacy right here. I love the simple recipe and process involved in making it. My friends do come to my place on first week of every month and I have been looking for something really nice to prepare for them. I’ll show this post to my wife so she can help me with it. Thanks for such nice post.
With the greatest pleasure Dane.