International Recipes
Cream of Lettuce Soup
(Potage Creme de Laitue)
Ingredients
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1/4 cup butter
- 2 large heads Boston lettuce or 2 small bunches romaine, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 cups water
- 1 tablespoon instant chicken bouillon
- 1 cup Half-and-Half
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- Mint leaves or parsley
Instructions
- Cook and stir onion in butter in a 3 quart saucepan over low heat until tender. Reserve 1 cup lettuce; stir remaining lettuce into onion. Cover and cook over low heat until lettuce wilts, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in flour; cook and stir 1 minute.
- Add water and bouillon. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute.
- Pour mixture into blender container. Cover and blend on high speed until smooth, about 30 seconds; pour into saucepan.
- Stir in reserved lettuce, Half-and-Half, salt and pepper. Heat just to boiling.
- Garnish with mint.