skinnymixer's Greek Chicken, Lemon & Egg Soup
A healthy spin on the traditional Avgolemono, which has rice in it.
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 1.5 kg whole chicken stuffed with a whole lemon and 3 garlic cloves
- 1 medium brown onion peeled, quartered
- 1 clove of garlic peeled
- 50 g celery roughly chopped
- 50 g carrot roughly chopped
- 30 g butter or oil of choice you can reduce this for low cal, or bump up for LCHF
- 1200 g water
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1/4 tsp cracked black pepper
- 1 dried bay leaf
- 4 egg yolk room temperature
- 50 g fresh lemon juice about 1 large lemon
- Parsley for garnish
Instructions
- Add onion, garlic, celery and carrot to mixer bowl, chop for 3 sec/speed 9/MC on.
- Add butter and sauté for 5 min/100°C or 212°F/speed 1/MC off.
- Add water, salt, pepper and bay leaf to mixer bowl, put chicken into steaming tray and steam for 60 min/steaming temp/speed 2.
- Top up with water and steam for a further 20 min/steaming temp/speed 2.
- Remove chicken from steaming tray and when cooled enough to handle, roughly remove the meat. Keep warm, covered, in a thermal pot.
- With a fork, whisk together lemon juice and egg yolk in a measuring jug. Take 1 cup of stock from the mixer bowl and slowly whisk it into the lemon juice and yolk mixture with a fork.
- Blend stock for 20 sec/speed 9/MC on increasing speed gradually.
- Set timer for 1 min/speed 3, and slowly drizzle in egg and lemon juice mixture.
- Pour soup over chicken and serve with fresh chopped parsley.
Notes
Adjust salt, pepper and lemon to your individual bowl 🙂 Its really important to slowly whisk in the hot stock with the yolk, so as to not scramble it. Bellini Users Use sharp blade for this recipe. At step 1 you may need to increase the chopping time slightly. At step 2 cook for a couple of extra minutes if necessary. At step 3 you will need to use speed 3 and if you're using an Intelli, make sure you put a tea towel over the lid of the steamer. At step 4 cook longer if required. At step 7 start at a lower speed and increase to speed 9
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Nutrition Facts
skinnymixer's Greek Chicken, Lemon & Egg Soup
Amount Per Serving (325 g)
Calories 232 Calories from Fat 105
% Daily Value*
Fat 11.7g18%
Saturated Fat 5.2g33%
Sodium 1940mg84%
Carbohydrates 2.5g1%
Sugar 2.3g3%
Protein 28.1g56%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.