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
40 min.	30 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.

---