• Prep Time:
  • Cooking Time:
  • Serves: 4 Servings

Chicken Velvet and Lettuce Soup

  • Recipe Submitted by on

Category: Soups

 Ingredients List

  • 1 Chicken breast
  • 1/2 c Stock (see recipe)
  • 1 Egg white
  • 2 c Lettuce
  • 2 tb Smoked ham
  • 6 c Stock
  • 1 ts Salt
  • 1/2 ts Sugar

 Directions

1. Skin and bone chicken breast; pound meat with mallet or side of
cleaver, then mince fine, removing tendons. Blend in stock.

2. Beat egg white until fluffy but not stiff. Fold into chicken mixture.
Cut lettuce in strips. Mince ham.

3. Bring remaining stock to a boil. Add lettuce, salt and sugar. Bring
to a boil again; remove at once from heat.

4. Stir in chicken mixture. Garnish with minced ham. Serve at once.

VARIATIONS: For the chicken, substitute 1/4 pound pork or ham, 4 water
chestnuts and 4 dried black mushrooms (soaked), all slivered. Combine with
stock, but omit egg white in step 2. Add this mixture in step 3 before
lettuce and seasonings. Simmer, covered, 10 minutes. Add lettuce and
simmer, uncovered, 2 minutes more. Season with the salt, dash of pepper,
and 1 teaspoon soy sauce, omitting the sugar.

For the lettuce, substitute 1/2 pound mustard cabbage, shredded. Then
poach a Chinese salt egg and float on the soup as a garnish.

 Share this Recipe

Recipes by Course

Recipes by Main Ingredient

Recipes by Cuisine

Recipes by Preparation

Recipes by Occasion

Recipes by Dietary

Sign Up and Create a Cookbook Today!

Please Sign in to your Account or Sign up if you are new user.

Who loves our Healthy Recipes?