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August 12, 2011
Cool Cucumber Soup
Heart-warming Soups
Prep time:
18 minuteschilling time:
2 hours“Cucumbers, onion and parsley from Grandma's garden made this a refreshing summer lunch.”
Ingredients
Serves 6
- 2 medium cucumbers
- 1/2 medium onion
- 2 cups sour cream
- 1 1/4 cups chicken broth
- 1/3 cup fresh parsley sprigs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
- 12 to 16 cucumber slices, optional for garnish
- 6 to 8 mint sprigs, optional for garnish
Directions
1
Peel and coarsely chop 1 cucumber. Coarsely chop the remaining unpeeled cucumber and the onion.
2
Combine cucumbers, onion, sour cream, chicken broth, parsley, salt, white pepper and nutmeg in a blender.
3
Process cucumber mixture just until well blended.
4
Pour cucumber soup into a large bowl. Chill, covered, for 2 hours or longer.
5
Ladle soup into individual soup bowls. Garnish with cucumber slices and mint sprigs, if desired.
6
Variation: For cold potato soup, bake 2 baking potatoes; cool. Peel and coarsely chop potatoes. Proceed with recipe, omitting the mint sprigs.
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Grandma's Secret Tip
Grandma's Secret Tip
Grandma's green goddess salad is the recipe for Cool Cucumber Soup without the chicken broth and with a little more parsley and a clove of garlic. She sometimes substituted 1 cup of mayonnaise for one of the cups of sour cream. She just put all the ingredients in a blender and processed the mixture until it was smooth.
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