Vegetarian magiritsa

The cook besides offers a vegan variation: erstwhile the soup is ready, take 1 ladleful and blend it with 40 g tahini and 60-80 ml citrus foodstuff until it becomes a thick, creamy mixture. Stir it backmost into the soup, set the seasoning, and decorativeness with the zest of 1 citrus oregon lime.

Chef: Nena Ismyrnoglou

Prep: 1 hour

Cooking: 1 hour

Ingredients

(serves 6)

• 600 g mixed cultivated greens (spinach, chard, sow thistle, lettuce, chervil)

• 200 g leeks, thinly sliced

• 200 g spring onions, thinly sliced

• 7-8 asparagus spears, trimmed and chopped into 4 pieces

• 2 artichoke hearts, sliced

• astir 1 liter blistery vegetable broth (or water)

• 40 g soup rice

• 1 sweet potato, diced small

• 1 clump wild fennel (or dill), finely chopped

• leaves from 6 sprigs mint, finely chopped

• 2 eggs (if suitable), yolks separated from whites, astatine country temperature

• 70 ml citrus juice

• 90 ml olive oil

• salt, freshly crushed achromatic pepper

Method

Clean, wash, adust and finely chop each the greens. In a heavy pot, vigor the olive lipid implicit mean vigor and saute the leeks for 5-6 minutes, until slightly softened. Add the spring onions and saute for different 3 minutes. Increase the heat, adhd the asparagus and artichokes, and saute for 2-3 minutes, stirring frequently. Add the greens and fto them wilt successful their ain juices for 2-3 minutes. Pour successful 750 ml of the blistery broth (or water) and bring to a boil. Reduce the vigor and simmer, covered, for astir 15 minutes.

Add the atom and the sweet potato, determination successful a small much broth oregon water, and proceed cooking for different 20 minutes. Finally, adhd the wild fennel (or dill) and the mint, stir, and region from the heat. Keep the soup warm.
If you are utilizing eggs, bushed the yolks with the citrus foodstuff utilizing a manus mixer until slightly thickened. Clean the beaters thoroughly and, successful different bowl, whip the ovum whites into a stiff meringue. Fold it into the yolk substance successful two batches, utilizing a flexible spatula with gentle, sweeping motions.

Slowly adhd arsenic overmuch blistery broth arsenic imaginable from the cookware into the egg-lemon mixture, until it is warmed through. Pour it backmost into the cookware and shingle mildly to harvester with the remaining broth. Let the soup remainder for 5-10 minutes, then service successful heavy bowls. Drizzle with a fewer drops of olive lipid and serve.

This story archetypal appeared successful Kathimerini’s nutrient supplement, Gastronomos.