QUICK AVGOLEMONO SOUP

Greek egg-lemon soup

This is a perfect way to use up a little leftover rice.

Ingredients

(4 servings)

1 cup cooked white rice
3 cups chicken broth
1 lemon, juiced
2 large eggs

Procedure

If you don't have any leftover white rice, put 1/2 cup of rice on to cook.
Heat the chicken broth to boiling.
While the chicken broth is heating, beat together the lemon juice and eggs in a small bowl or glass measuring cup until uniform in color.
When the chicken broth is boiling, stir in the cooked rice. Remove from heat and stir briskly while slowly pouring the egg mixture into the pot from about a foot in the air. The soup should end up resembling a cream soup and there should be no large visible threads of egg.

Notes

This recipe even works well with canned chicken broth since the lemon covers up the "canned" flavor.

Rating

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 20 minutes if you have to cook the rice, 10 minutes if you don't.
Precision: No need to measure.

Contributor

 
-paul asente 
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA 
asente@cascade.stanford.edu decwrl!glacier!cascade!asente

Recipe last modified: 18 Nov 86

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