Alborea almonds soup

                                                                               Receta en Español

I found the following recipe in the book from Carmina Useros 'Mil recetas de la cocina de Albacete y su provincia' , it is a typical soup from the village called Alborea from Castilla , Spain. A Castilian soup where almonds are added.

Ingredients:

• 3 garlic clove.
• 3 yolks.
• 120 grams of bread.
• 70 grams of peeled and chopped almonds.

Method:

1-  Cut the bread into thin slices 1 cm thick.

2-  Pour some oil in a pan , fry the bread slices. Keep them aside.

3-  Take a big pot , pour oil and sautée garlic cloves.

4-  Add 1 liter and a half of water, add salt. Put on a low fire until it gets boiling point.

5-  Brake the bread slices into little chunks.

6-  Add bread and chopped almonds to the pot. Turn off the fire.

7-  A little time before serving the soup add yolks to thick the soup, do it as it is told in the following steps:

8-  Put yolks, who are at room temperature, into a cup . Stir well.

9- Pour two spoons full of some liquid from the pot into the cup , stir well. Add more spoons little by little and stir well after each spoon. This way yolks will heat very slowly.

10- Once yolks are at the same temperature as the rest of the soup , pour them in the pot and stir one more time.



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