Romaine Lettuce Soup Recipe

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 of 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.

Table of Contents

• Let’s See the Ingredients
• Preparing the Ingredients
• How to Make the Romaine Lettuce Soup Recipe?
• Finishing the soup
• Serving the Soup

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 dills.

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 look 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 for one minute and the thickening is ready, we can continue to cook the soup.

Add the cut romaine lettuce leaves to 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 litres of water, then add the chopped garlic in the pot.

Let’s boil for 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 an 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 them. 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, and cut it 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.

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Romaine Lettuce Soup Recipe

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Today we offer you this recipe of delicious romaine lettuce soup, as it is done in Transylvania. It is a spring-summer recipe that is made of any kind lettuce.

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 25 mins

Total Time 35 mins

Course Dinner

Cuisine Hungarian

Servings 6 people

Calories 148 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 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.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gramsCalories: 148kcalCarbohydrates: 5gProtein: 8gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 19mgSodium: 1466mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1g

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