Green salad soup (lettuce soup) is a traditional Maramureș recipe from Giulești, collected in the Maramureș GastroEtnoArt collection of the Maramureș Museum in Sighetu Marmației. A delicious spring soup, finished with sour cream.
🥣 Ingredients
- lettuce (large heads)
- lard (or oil, or bacon)
- water or whey (yogurt can be used instead of whey)
- flour
- sour cream
👩🍳 Method
Clean the lettuce, wash it well and squeeze it by hand. Put a tablespoon of lard in a pan and add the lettuce. Stir a few times.
In a pot, boil water or whey water (2 parts water and one part whey). Yogurt can be used instead of whey. When the water boils, put the lettuce in the pot.
Make a little sauce with oil, lard or bacon and flour, then pour it into the pot. At the end, add sour cream.
📖 Recipe story
Recipe from Maria Lazăr, 80 years old, from Giulești, published in the Maramureș GastroEtnoArt collection of the Maramureș Museum in Sighetu Marmației.
Photo source: Laura Laurențiu (lauralaurentiu.ro)
🔍 What’s next
If you like lettuce soup, also try Brozdi – young nettle soup, another traditional Maramureș recipe from the GastroEtnoArt collection.
