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I’ve all the time been fascinated by the best way that the wild harvest appears so in tune with my urge for food. It’s as if nature is reminding me who’s in cost.
By the point the wild garlic begins peeking its head above floor within the very early spring, I’m greater than prepared for it – my foodie self is crying out for the pungent goodness of its super-green chlorophyll-stuffed leaves, and I by no means maintain again from them.
Wild garlic soup recipe
Serves: 4
Prep time: 10 minutes | Cook dinner time: 30 minutes
Elements:
1 onion, peeled and chopped
2 giant potatoes, scrubbed and chopped
50ml rapeseed oil
500g wild garlic
4 medium eggs
Methodology:
1. This recipe is the very essence of simplicity. In a big pan, start to sweat the onion and potato within the rapeseed oil. Season this properly and let it prepare dinner till the potato is pretty tender, about 15 minutes. Stir often and take note of the way it’s getting on.
2. Within the meantime, wash and re-wash your wild garlic leaves. Keep in mind: canine, foxes, badgers and drunken youths might properly have handed by the garlic earlier than it was picked for you. And on a much less worrisome however no much less essential level, it loves sandy soil and you do not need crunchy soup.
3. Roughly chop the garlic leaves. Add water to the potatoes and onions till simply lined. Carry to a simmer. When – and solely when – the potato is tender, add the wild garlic leaves and prepare dinner for simply 1 min. If the soup will get overcooked at this stage it can lose its vibrant inexperienced color.
4. Take away the soup to a superb jug blender and mix till easy and inexperienced. Depart the mixer working for not less than 1 min – it’s a very long time with all that noise, however value it for the feel and color that end result. Season the soup and both return it to the pan or into an oven-proof casserole dish.
5. Crack 4 eggs rigorously into the nonetheless scorching soup and place in a scorching oven for six minutes – you don’t need the soup to re-boil, you simply wish to partially set the eggs (runny yolks are a should).
6. Whereas the soup is ending within the oven, grill some superb bread till properly crisp and charred, place this on the desk together with the soup and a few good butter, with salt and pepper at hand.
Alternate options: Use a rooster or gentle fish inventory instead of water for a deeper flavour, possibly with some flakes of smoked fish and even torn up chilly rooster instead of the eggs. As a substitute of untamed garlic, make the identical soup with nettles or parsley, and even watercress.
Recipe from Borough Market. Go to www.boroughmarket.org.uk for extra
