Cream of lettuce soup
Instructions:
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine
- 2 large heads
- Boston lettuce or 2 small bunches romaine, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 cups water
- 1 tablespoon instant chicken bouillon
- 1 cup half-and-half
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- Mint leaves or parsley
- Cook and stir onion in butter in 3-quart saucepan over low heat until tender.
- Reserve 1 cup lettuce; stir remaining lettuce into onion.
- Cover and cook over low heat until lettuce wilts, about 5 minutes. Stir in flour; cook and stir 1 minute.
- Add water and bouillon. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute.
- Pour mixture into blender container. Cover and blend on high speed until smooth, about 30 seconds; pour into saucepan. Stir in reserved lettuce, half-and-half, salt and pepper.
- Heat just to boiling. Garnish with mint.