Lettuce, Cucumber and Mint Soup

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

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Delicious

By Darina Allen

Published 1989

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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

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Alison Stattersfield

2 years ago from United Kingdom

I had a bag of mixed lettuce leaves that I needed to use, and so this fitted the bill. It worked out really well and I added some grated parmesan to finish it off.

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