Cold Lemon Soup with Mint

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Lemons (A Country Garden Cookbook)

By Christopher Idone

Published 1995

  • About

This soup is a refreshing and cooling version of the Greek classic avgolemono.

Ingredients

  • 4 cups chicken stock, homemade or canned
  • 3 egg yolks

Method

In a nonreactive soup kettle, bring the stock to a boil, reduce the heat, and simmer for 5 minutes.

In a large bowl, whisk the egg yolks. Add the zest, lemon juice, salt, and cayenne. Whisk in the cream and slowly add 2 ladles of hot stock to the egg mixture a little at a time, whisking continuously.

Reverse the process and add the egg mixture to the stock a little at a time, st