in Germany, Soup Recipes

Maundy Thursday soup or nine-herb soup

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Ingredients for 6 servings:

  • 1 onion(s)
  • 1 ½ tbsp butter
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • 1 liter of broth
  • Salt
  • pepper
  • Pimpinella
  • Nettles
  • Dead nettle, cow flower
  • chervil
  • sorrel
  • Parsley
  • little dandelion
  • 1 egg yolk
  • ⅛ liter sour cream

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

Peel and dice the onion, fry it in butter, and then add the flour. Then add the broth and season with salt and pepper. Place all the chopped herbs in a soup tureen and pour the broth over them. Whisk the egg yolk with the sour cream and stir into the broth. Garnish with small daisy heads! This unusual soup used to be a Maundy Thursday tradition here in the Ore Mountains.

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Written by John Myers

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