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By Janni Kyritsis and Roberta Muir
Published 2006
Avgo means ‘egg’ and temono means ‘lemons’. Avgolemono is a traditional Greek sauce made by whisking egg and lemon juice together, and is usually poured into hot soups to thicken them. It’s used so often by Greeks that it sometimes seems to be the only sauce in Greek cooking. One of my favourite dishes is youvarlakia, meatballs made from rice and minced veal cooked in a light stock that is then thickened with avgolemono: a hearty meatball soup. My avgolemono here is a cross be