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 soup recipe, as was always done in our family.
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 will use romaine lettuce because it is very common here in the UK.
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Let’s See the Ingredients
For this recipe, we need two pieces of bigger romaine lettuce, enough to get six servings.
Also, we need four large size free range eggs, two cloves of garlic, about 200 grams of smoked bacon or pancetta and a bunch of dill.
Preparing the Ingredients
First, we break the lettuce leaves and wash them one by one, to get rid of any traces of sand or soil in the lettuce.
After that cut or broke the lettuce leaves into not too small pieces, to make it easier to eat and looks better on the plate.
Finely chop the two cloves of garlic, which we will boil in the soup.
How to Make the Romaine Lettuce Soup Recipe?
In a soup pot, we heat 50 ml of sunflower oil in which we put 3 tablespoons of wheat flour, with which we will make a thickening.
Let the flour fry a little, stirring constantly until it gets a yellowish colour. Season 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.
Simmer one minute and the thickening is ready, we can continue to cook the soup.
Add the cut romaine lettuce leaves in the pot, and mix lightly with a wooden spoon, to soften the leaves a little.
Pour the water to cover the lettuce well, I put about two litters of water, then add the chopped garlic in the pot.
Let’s boil about 20 minutes on medium heat, I want and it’s tasty if the lettuce is not hard 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, I put the sliced and chopped bacon in a pan to fry.
Fry for 3-4 minutes until the bacon turns golden and slightly crispy.
Until the bacon fries, crack the four eggs into a bowl and slightly beat then. Season with salt and pepper and mix well (I used the fork) until homogenised.
Pour the beaten eggs over the fried bacon.
Roast the eggs until they become an omelette.
Finishing the soup
When the soup is almost ready, add the omelette with the fried bacon, cut into bigger pieces.
At the end we add the chopped dill, boil for two minutes, and the soup is ready, this was the romaine lettuce soup recipe, in Timea’s Kitchen style.
Serving the Soup
This soup can be served both warm and cold with sour cream, next to chilli or polenta.
If you are tried this easy and tasty romaine lettuce soup recipe and you liked it, on our blog you will find another delicious recipe like cabbage soup with pork meat.
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Romaine Lettuce Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 PCs romaine lettuce or other lettuce
- 200 g smoked bacon or pancetta
- 4 PCs eggs free range
- 2 cloves garlic
- 3 teaspoon sea salt kosher
- 3 teaspoon ground pepper freshly ground
- 1 tbsp
sweet paprika Hungarian - 3 tbsp wheat flour
- 1 bunch dill chopped
- 50 ml sunflower oil
Instructions
- 1.Break the lettuce leaves, wash them well and cut them. Chop the garlic and the dill.
- 2.Heat the sunflower oil in the soup pot, and add the wheat flour to frying, seasoning with salt and pepper and stir until it gets a yellowish colour. 3.Add the sweet paprika and a little water.4.After one minute put the lettuce over the thickener in the pot.5.Addthe sliced garlic and two litter of the water. Boil about 20 minutes
- 6.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. 7.Slice the omelette and put it in the soup together with the chopped dill.
- 8.Served hot or warm with soured cream or yoghurt.
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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.