
Lettuce Soup
If you’ve never had lettuce soup before, you need to give this one a try. It’s easy to make and it comes together in less than 20 minutes.
This lettuce soup is really loved in a lot of parts of Romania, but you can make it as well, wherever you live because it asks for basic ingredients that you can easily find at the grocery store.
It’s usually made in the summer when there’s an abundance of fresh and delicious lettuce, but now we can find lettuce pretty much all the time at the grocery store.
Yesterday I found some fresh and young lettuce so I thought I would whip up some delicious soup. I don’t know about you, but in our house, we eat soup almost every day, all year long. For me, it doesn’t matter if it’s spring or summer, I need soup. 🙂 Do you eat soup only in the colder days?
For this recipe, you need only a few ingredients, and maybe you even have them already in the kitchen.
Ingredients:
- 2 heads of lettuce
- 4-5 cloves of garlic
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- 1 teaspoon of paprika
- one tablespoon of plain flour
- 2 tablespoons of fresh chopped dill
- 3 tablespoons of creme fraiche, cream, or greek yogurt
As you can see, you need just a handful of basic ingredients to make this lettuce soup. So, let’s begin.
Start by washing the lettuce leaves one by one, because you may find snail and sand stuck in between the leaves. Wash them well and let the leaves drain for 30 minutes.

After 30 minutes or so, chop the garlic cloves and saute them into a big pot stirring constantly, making sure they don’t burn. After 2-3 minutes, when the garlic is fragrant, but not brown, add the paprika and stir for a few seconds, to saute it as well. Add the flour and do the same.
When you saute the garlic, paprika, and flour, work fast, because they burn very easily and then, you have to throw everything to the trash. So be careful.
Chop the lettuce in bitesize pieces and set aside. Add about 3-4 L of water and add all the lettuce. Don’t worry if it seems too much because it will shrink a lot. Season with salt, pepper, and dill and bring the soup to a boil.

When it starts boiling, turn the heat to medium-low and cook for 15 minutes. The lettuce doesn’t need much cooking that this.
In the meantime, whisk creme fraiche with a ladle of soup. Turn the heat off and let the soup rest for 10 minutes. Add the creme fraiche, stir to combine and serve hot or warm.

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Lettuce Soup
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9 Comentarios
skd
Delicious soup. Just right for the cold days.
Leslie
Wow! I never heard of making a soup with lettuce, but it make sense. I love other greens in soups, so this is one I’ll give a try.
silviamagda
You will not regret making this!
nancyc
I’ve never heard of lettuce soup-it sounds great!
silviamagda
I hope you give it a try.
Lisa Karen Kelly
OMG I’ve never heard of these but I’ll bet it’s so refreshing and detoxifying. Might be nice to make a big batch and keep it in the fridge all week!
silviamagda
You really have to try it, it’s that good!
Anita Leigh
I guess I like my soups with much more flavor, but I found it a good starting place. I sauteed a whole onion with the garlic, used less water and replaced some of it with vegetable stock and a little milk, added some Tuscan kale and chard along with the lettuce, 3 mushrooms, mushroom powder, much more paprika (smoked), a lot of tamari (soy sauce), and some hot sauce. I also took out the greens and pureed the soup carefully in a blender, but then cooked the mushrooms in the broth and left them in chunks for texture.
silviamagda
Well, that’s not the same soup anymore. But I’m glad this one served as an inspiration for you.