La soupe à l’ail rose de lautrec

Pink Lautrec garlic soup

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Magrets & Mushrooms: More Country Recipes from South-West France

By Jeanne Strang

Published 2024

  • About

There are many recipes for garlic soup but the one that follows is not only the most tasty of all but is brought to perfection by the use of the pink garlic that is the speciality of the Lautrec region in the Tarn, just south of Albi. Each year during the first week of August, Lautrec holds its annual garlic fête, which attracts thousands of visitors. You can buy heads of the bulb itself, as well as all manner of elaborate artefacts and decorative objects made from garlic. At lunchti