Sorrel soup

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 6 people, you will need:

• 1 500 g potatoes
• 2 300 g sorrel
• 3 1 shallot
• 4 50 g butter
• 5 1 litre 500 ml water
• 6 1 chicken stock cube
• 7 salt
• 8 pepper
• Total weight: 2,385 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
38 min.	26 min.	1 hour 4 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Peel and wash 500 g potatoes, then slice.
• 2: Prepare 300 g sorrel.
• 3: Chop 1 shallot.
• 4: Melt 50 g butter in a large over a medium heat, then add shallot chopped small, cook one minute.
• 5: Add the sorrel leaves, and let them wilt while stirring gently.
• 6: Wilting means that the beautiful green sorrel will become brown and mushy, but fortunately it keeps all its taste.
• 7: Add potatoes in the pan, salt and pepper, and cover.
• 8: Add 1 litre 500 ml water, 1 chicken stock cube and cook until the potatoes are done.
• 9: At the end of this time, remove from the heat, and blend the contents of the pan with a blender.

Remarks

The boys call this recipe "alien soup", obviously from the color. They came up with this version: put a small alien in a blender with 1 litre of acid, do not salt (the alien is naturally salty) and blend about thirty seconds, serve immediately.

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