Lettuce Soup
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
4 1/2 Cups
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped onions
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄8 teaspoon pepper
- 3 cups chicken stock
- 4 cups shredded head lettuce, firmly packed
- 1 cup rich creamy milk
directions
- Melt butter in large saucepan.
- Add onion and sauté until soft and clear.
- Mix in flour, salt and pepper.
- Stir in chicken stock until it boils and thickens slightly.
- Add lettuce. Simmer for about 3 minutes.
- Add creamy milk. Heat through.
- One thing I do different then the original recipe is I like to blend the soup just before serving with a hand blender until I get the consistency I like. CAREFUL when doing this because it is very hot!
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I am a multi-tasking engineer. My family consists of my DH and myself, as well as four beautiful children. We reside on a farm in southern Alberta, and also own a business in the oilfield that keeps us busy through our cold winters.