Lamb sour soup recipe
with lamb head and lots of verdures
The lamb sour soup with lamb head and verdures is generally cooked in Romania only once a year: on Easter. It's spring. So we use lots of verdures.
Well, I have a problem with verdures quantities. I buy them in small heaps (about how much you can hold in a hand) but I think it's more useful for you to translate all this in quantities.
Lamb sour soup with lamb head and verdures
Ingredients
lamb head and neck
3 l water
1 tbs. salt
3 carrots
1 parsley
5 green onions
2 green garlics
500g/1lb spinach
500g/1lb garden lettuce
500g/1lb dock
300g/0.6lb red pig weed
300g/0.6lb sour dock
2 tbs. green parsley
2 tbs. lovage
1 yolk
2 tbs. sour cream
Put the lamb head and neck, water and salt to boil at medium heat. Use a larger pot (about 5 l). If you love the lamb's taste just clean up the foam from the surface of boiling water. If you want a less powerful lamb taste throw out the water and put the lamb in cold water to boil again. Don't forget to add the salt.
In the meantime wash and chop the vegetables and verdures. Keep 3 onions and greens (parsley and lovage) separately. After boiling the lamb for 20-30 min add the carrots and parsley to boil. After another half an hour add the verdures (except those mentioned before). Mix all the time. Let them boil for another 10 minutes.
Mix the yolk with the sour cream. Take the soup off from the heat and add the sour cream while continuously mixing. Add the rest of verdures, mix them and cover the pot. Let it cool for 10-15 minutes.
Serve it with pieces of lamb (from the head or neck) and sour cream.
Note: You can replace the sour dock with sour bran and water (add 300 ml of sour bran and water before putting the sour cream and let it boil for 10 minutes) or whey (replace the whole water with whey). Don't try with anything else. It won't be the same.
The quantities in this sour soup recipe are for 12 large portions.
Enjoy!
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