Catalonia 7: Garlic Soup 🌞

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GARLIC SOUP

Ingredients (for 4 people)

1.5 L (1.5qts) water or vegetable broth
peasant bread from the previous day
6 garlic cloves
olive oil
salt
3 eggs

Preparation

1. Heat a pot with the water or vegetable broth together with laminated
garlic, a pinch of salt and a splash of oil.

2. Boil for 4 minutes and add thin slices of bread.

3. Whisk with a mixer until the bread is reduced to a soup.

4. A few minutes before removing from the heat, add eggs, whisk and
serve quickly.

Comments

This is one of many scalded soups prepared throughout Catalonia. It’s very
simple and inexpensive; it uses the bread from the previous day and the
broth from boiling vegetables or cooking legumes such as beans or
chickpeas. To make this a scalded soup, some people slice the bread thinly
and place it in the soup bowls. The bread is then topped with sliced garlic,
followed by a splash of oil and very hot broth poured on top.

The bowl is covered and left to stand for a few minutes, and then it’s ready
to eat.


From "Roots Catalan" by Joan Roca


MMMmmmm GARLIC!

[2naSalit]

1. This sounds good...

Another garlic soup from the region:

6-7 ripe tomatoes cut into wedges
1 bulb of garlic peeled
3 Tablespoons olive oil
2 Bay leaves
Water

Yield, about a gallon - you can freeze this and use later for broth or soup.

In a stock pot brown garlic in oil, add tomatoes and Bay leaves, add enough water to cover the tomatoes, boil down one inch (along side of pot), strain. Separate into serving size portions, simmer and add eggs whole or whipped. When eggs are done, serve with bread and something salty on the side.

I make this for winter maladies, it tastes more like tomato soup than garlic soup.

[justaprogressive]

2. Well yeah it would with 6-7 tomatoes!

What do you do with the unknown number of eggs not listed in the ingredients?

[2naSalit]

3. Finisher for the soup...

As in the recipe you posted. Sorry I wasn't specific, it was a hurried input.

[justaprogressive]

4. no worries

just left me hanging

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5. Read the recipe... but I'm wondering at this...

Heat a pot with the water or vegetable broth together with laminated garlic,

What is laminated garlic? I've never heard the term, outside of laminating certain paper cards with plastic!

[justaprogressive]

6. Dried Garlic

https://eurocompanygarlic.com/buy-laminated-dehydrated-garlic/

dehydrated peeled cloves...

[slightlv]

7. Thank you! That terminology really had me! :)