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- From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Summer asparagus soup
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- Date: 12 Feb 88 06:20:26 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE ASPARAG-SOUP-1 SPV "9 Mar 87" 1988
- .RZ "SUMMER ASPARAGUS SOUP" "A light and simple asparagus soup"
- Every summer, it seems,
- the grocery stores are glutted with cheap asparagus. Most of the classical
- recipes for asparagus soup produce a hearty winter-style soup.
- Here's a simple recipe for a delicious, light, thin soup that is more in
- keeping with the time of the year that the glut occurs. You can leave out
- the chicken broth to make it a meatless soup, but it does require egg yolks.
- .IH "Serves 4\-6"
- .IG "2 Tbsp" "butter" "30 ml"
- .IG "1" "onion,"
- chopped
- .IG "1\(12 lbs" "fresh asparagus" "700 g"
- .IG "2 Tbsp" "flour" "30 ml"
- .IG "6 cups" "boiling water" "1.5 l"
- .IG "2 tsp" "salt" "10 ml"
- .IG "\(14 cup" "rich chicken broth" "60 ml"
- (optional)
- .IG "2" "egg yolks"
- .IG "\(12 cup" "milk" "120 ml"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Melt the butter in a pan big enough to cook the soup. Saut\z\(aae the onions
- for a few minutes, until transparent but not brown.
- .SK 2
- Meanwhile, slice the asparagus into thin slices.
- Now add the sliced asparagus pieces to
- the onions and continue to saut\z\(aae (over medium to medium-high heat) for
- 15 minutes, until most of the moisture has steamed out of the asparagus and the
- mixture has just barely started to brown.
- .SK 3
- Add the flour to the onion/asparagus mixture and stir well to coat each piece
- with some flour. Cook for 2 or 3 more minutes over medium-high heat.
- .SK 4
- Dump the boiling water into the asparagus mixture. Add the (optional)
- chicken broth and the salt. Simmer for 1 hour.
- .SK 5
- Strain out the cooked asparagus, leaving behind a thin yellow-green soup.
- .SK 6
- Thicken the soup with the 2 egg yolks.
- Add the milk and reheat the soup to
- serving temperature. Add salt and fresh-ground white pepper to taste.
- Serve immediately.
- .NX
- The slicing disk on a food processor does an excellent job of slicing the
- asparagus for this recipe. You can use a food mill, a china cap, or an
- ordinary sieve to strain the cooked asparagus out of the broth.
- .PP
- Don't try to make this soup as a low-salt soup by leaving out the salt.
- It will taste like dishwater if you cook the asparagus for an hour without
- salt. Don't try to skimp on time by leaving the cooked asparagus in the
- broth unstrained. It will ruin the texture.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy to moderate (thickening soup with egg yolks is not a beginner's skill).
- .I Time:
- 10 minutes preparation, 1 hour simmering, 5 minutes finishing.
- .I Precision:
- Approximate measurement OK.
- .WR
- Brian Reid
- DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, California, USA
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