skinnymixer's Greek Chicken, Lemon & Egg Soup

A healthy spin on the traditional Avgolemono, which has rice in it.

Prep Time10

Cook Time1 25

Total Time1 35

Course: Soup

Cuisine: Greek

Servings:

Calories: 232kcal

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

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.

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