Vegetable Consommé with Shredded Lettuce

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4-6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cooking for Christmas

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1978

  • About

The lightest possible kind of soup can be useful to have in the house at Christmas. It could be the answer, either at the end of the day of overeating when you simply don’t want another big meal, or an appetizing but not too filling course.

Ingredients

  • 1 large onion
  • 1 lb (500 g) tomatoes
  • 12

Method

Wash the onion but don’t peel it. Then cut it into eight. Cut up the tomatoes and carrots roughly. Put all the vegetables into a saucepan and pour in the water. Season with salt and black pepper and the caster sugar. Cover the pan, bring it to the boil and simmer for about 1½ hours.

Line a large sieve with a thin, clean linen tea cloth and put it over another saucepan. Pour the soup int