Lettuce, Cucumber and Mint Soup

Name: Lettuce, Cucumber and Mint Soup
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Ireland
Ingredients: 36 g/4 tablesp./¼ cup cream (optional); 2 teasp./2 American teasp. freshly-chopped mint; 40–55 g/1½-2 ozs/¼–½ stick butter; 110 g/4 ozs/1 cup diced onions; 140 g/5 ozs/1 cup unpeeled diced cucumber; 170 g/6 ozs/3 cups chopped lettuce leaves (without stalk); 140 g/5 ozs/1 cup peeled diced potatoes; 1.2 L/2 pints/5 cups home-made chicken stock; salt and freshly-ground pepper

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Delicious

By Darina Allen

Published 1989

About

Ingredients

40–55 g/1½-2 ozs/¼–½ stick butter
110

Method

Melt the butter in a heavy saucepan. When it foams, add the potatoes and onions and turn them until well coated. Sprinkle with salt and freshly-ground pepper. Cover and sweat on a gentle heat for 10 minutes, until soft but not coloured. Add the cucumber and toss it in the butter. Add the stock, bring to the boil and cook until the potatoes, onions and cucumbers are completely cooked. Add the le