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Le Tourin

Soup | Cuisine of France is a type of garlic soup. This recipe is from the village of Le Fleix in

Prep15 min
Cook30 min
Total45 min
Servings4
Difficultyintermediate

Ingredients

  • of garlic
    chopped
    10-12 cloves
  • olive oil
    1 tablespoon
  • flour
    1 tablespoon
  • water — 4 cups (adjust amount as needed - use distilled
    filtered or reverse osmosis water)
    1 unit
  • salt to taste
    1 unit
  • egg
    separated
    1 unit
  • pepper to taste
    1 unit
  • vinegar
    1 teaspoon

Method

1
In a frying pan, brown the chopped garlic (or optionally, an equal mixture of chopped onions and garlic) in the olive oil.
2
Add the flour.
3
Mix well, then cook for a moment.
4
Add some boiling salted water, and cook for 10 minutes.
5
In a separate dish, mix:
6
*egg yolk
7
*pepper
8
*vinegar
9
Add the egg white to the soup, first tempering in a separate bowl with a whisk, so that no large pieces of egg white form.
10
Cook another 5 minutes. Remove from heat and add the egg yolk mixture, again tempering to avoid coagulation.
11
Place thin slices of bread in each soup bowl, and pour the soup on top. Serve hot. Bon appétit.