Chilled Sorrel Soup Recipes

CHILLED SORREL-AND-PEA SOUP

Steps:

• Combine 3 cups of water and the rice in a pot; simmer, covered, until very soft, about 20 minutes. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a saucepan over low heat, add the onion and cook until slightly soft. Add the peas and toss for 1 minute. Add the rice with its cooking liquid, the sugar and salt.
• Simmer, covered, until tender, about 8 to 10 minutes. Pass the soup through the medium disk of a food mill.
• Slice the sorrel into slivers. Reserve a handful for garnish and place the rest in a nonaluminum pot with the remaining 1/2 cup water. Stir over moderate heat until "melted."
• Add the sorrel to the puree and press the mixture through a fine sieve. Add 1/2 cup buttermilk and 1/4 cup cream. Adjust seasoning with salt and white pepper.
• Refrigerate at least 4 hours. To serve, add buttermilk and cream to taste and check seasoning. Ladle the soup into bowls, garnish with the remaining sorrel and serve.

SORREL SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, melt 3 tablespoons butter over medium heat. Add onion and cook, without browning, until softened, 6 to 8 minutes. Add sorrel and season with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Stir over low heat for about 5 minutes.
• Sprinkle in flour and cook, stirring, over moderate heat for 5 minutes. Stir in boiling stock. Simmer for 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
• In a small bowl, beat yolks lightly with cream. Whisking constantly, slowly pour 1 cup hot stock mixture into egg mixture, then return back to saucepan. Do not let soup boil after egg yolks have been added or yolks will curdle.
• Stir in softened butter and serve hot with a dollop of creme fraiche and chervil. If serving the soup chilled, do not add the softened butter.

COLD SORREL SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter over moderate heat in a medium stockpot or Dutch oven. Cook onion with salt and pepper until soft, about 15 minutes. Stir in sorrel and cook over moderate heat, uncovered, about 5 minutes. Stir occasionally so the sorrel is evenly cooked.
• Add half and half, water, and Tabasco pepper sauce. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Puree in a blender until smooth and strain through a medium sieve. Stir in lemon juice, adjust with salt and pepper, and refrigerate a minimum of 4 hours, or, to serve immediately, chill in bowl rested in another bowl of iced water. Serve cold.

CHILLED SORREL SOUP

Steps:

• Remove center ribs and stems from sorrel; tie ribs and stems in a bundle and wrap in cheesecloth. Chop leaves into this strips. In a 2-qt. saucepan, combine water, lemon juice, sorrel leaves and bundle of stems. Simmer for 20 minutes; discard stem bundle. , In a small bowl, beat egg yolks; add a small amount of sorrel mixture, stirring constantly. Return all to the pan. Cook and stir until soup thickens (do not boil). Cool; chill for several hours. Add salt and pepper. Garnish with a dollop of sour cream and additional sorrel if desired.

CHILLED CREAM OF SORREL SOUP

Steps:

• In a soup or large saucepan, melt butter and cook onion until tender.
• Add potatoes and sorrel and combine with onions.
• Add stock, pepper, tarragon and a little salt.
• Bring soup to boil.
• Reduce heat and cover, simmer gently until potatoes are cooked, about 30 minutes.
• Puree soup in a blender chill thoroughly.
• Stir in cream.
• Taste and adjust seasoning.
• Adjust consistency with additional cream or chicken stock if necessary.

HOT OR COLD SORREL SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter over moderate heat in a medium stockpot or Enamel coated Dutch oven (not cast iron).
• Cook onion, potato, salt and pepper until soft, about 10 minutes add garlic cook 3 more minutes.
• Stir in sorrel and cook over moderate heat, uncovered, about 5 minutes.
• Stirring occasionally to evenly cook.
• Add half and half, water or stock, and nutmeg. Bring to a low boil and remove from heat. Puree in a blender until smooth. Stir in lemon juice, add salt and pepper to taste, and refrigerate a minimum of 4 hours.
• Serve ice cold bowls garnished with your choices.

SCHAV( COLD SORREL SOUP)

Steps:

• Pick over and wash sorrel.
• Chop leaves very fine.
• Bring water to a rolling boil
• Drop in sorrel.
• Cook for 10 minutes.
• Cool.
• Pour into quart jars.
• Serve in cold bowl with dollop of sour cream,
• topped with scallions and radishes.
• Plunk potatoes around.

ICE-COLD SCHAV

Steps:

• Melt butter in nonreactive soup pot. Sweat shallot and minced potato scraps in the butter slowly, stirring gently. Season with salt.
• Put diced potatoes in the water, season with salt and bring to a boil. Simmer potatoes until perfectly cooked, a couple of minutes only. Taste one cube to determine.
• Add sorrel to sweating shallot-potato mixture, and season with salt. Stir and wilt the sorrel, which will happen almost instantly, turning drab immediately.
• Add the cooked potatoes and their salty water to the pot of sorrel. Season with salt, if needed, keeping in mind that when chilled, the flavors are dulled significantly.
• Chill immediately and thoroughly - overnight even.
• Chop the hard-boiled eggs, and scatter in the cold soup. Mince half the reserved stems from the sorrel as you would chives, and sprinkle over soup.

CHILLED WATERCRESS, SPRING NETTLE, AND SORREL SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, warm the olive oil and butter over medium heat until the butter is foamy. Add the onion, leeks, garlic, and salt, and stir to coat. Let cook 10 minutes, then add 4 cups stock or water. Bring to a simmer. Add the watercress and nettles and simmer just until tender. Using a fine-mesh sieve over a bowl, strain the soup, separating the liquid from the solids, but reserve both. Transfer both to the refrigerator and cool 2 hours. Remove the separated cooled soup ingredients from the refrigerator and recombine. Puree the soup in batches in the food processor or in a blender, and add the sorrel leaves a little at a time. The soup will have some texture. When finished processing, taste for seasoning and adjust as needed. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• Transfer the soup to chilled bowls and garnish with a spoonful of crème fraîche, a drizzle of olive oil, and a few thin slices of leek tops or green garlic tops.

CHILLED SORREL SOUP

Steps:

• In a soup pot, bring the water, potatoes, dill & scallions to a medium boil & cook for 5 minutes.
• Add the chopped sorrel & lemon juice, salt, pepper & sugar. Simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat & discard the dill sprigs.
• In a large bowl, beat the eggs with the cold water till light.
• Very slowly pour 2 cups of the hot stock.
• into the egg mixture, stirring constantly to prevent curdling. Then pour egg mixture back into the soup pot, stirring thoroughly.
• Chill until very cold, at least 3 hours.
• Just before serving, whisk in the sour cream & garnish with dill. Top with cucumbers.