Mediterranean Garlic Soup
- 5 garlic heads, large
- 2 cups white onions, sliced
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 quarts chicken stock (vegetable stock fine too)
- 1 cup white wine, dry
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tablespoon sage leaf, chopped fresh (1 teaspoon dried sage OK too)
- 3 cloves, whole
- salt, to taste
- white pepper, freshly ground, to taste
- fresh lemon juice, to taste
- 13 cup olive oil
- 4 egg yolks
- Separate garlic into cloves and crush slightly with side of knife.
- Do not peel.
- Add garlic, onions and vegetable oil to a soup pot and saute until onions just begin to soften.
- Do not brown.
- Add stock, wine, bay, sage and cloves.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer partially covered for 45 minutes.
- Strain pressing down firmly on the solids to extract all flavor.
- Return soup to pot and correct seasoning with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
- In a bowl, whisk olive oil into egg yolks by drops to form an emulsion (mayonnaise) .
- At serving time, beat 1 cup of hot soup into emulsion in a thin stream.
- Gradually beat in remaining soup.
- Return to pot and reheat gently being careful boil or egg will scramble.
- Serve immediately garnished as suggested.
garlic, white onions, vegetable oil, chicken, white wine, bay leaf, sage leaf, salt, white pepper, lemon juice, olive oil, egg yolks
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/mediterranean-garlic-soup-367456 (may not work)