Ground Elder Soup is a modern British recipe for a classic soup of ground elder, onion and bacon cooked in chicken stock that's finished by the addition of cream. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic British version of: Ground Elder Soup.
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Ground elder is a very common woodland plant, but not one that many people think is edible. In fact the young, bright green, shoots of ground elder make a very tasty vegetable.
Ingredients:
2 bunches (about 24 to 30 young stems) of Ground elder
25g butter
25g flour
1 small onion
1 rasher of bacon, cut into strips
salt and black pepper, to taste
500ml chicken stock
250ml single cream
Method:
Remove the leaves from the ground elder stems and rinse them. Add them immediately to a pan (do not drain), cover the pan and sweat the leaves for 1 minute.
Add the butter to a pan and use to fry the bacon and onion until the onion softens then stir-in the flour. Slowly add the stock, stirring all the time until you get a smooth soup base. Add the leaves and simmer for 5 minutes. Blend with a hand blender then add the cream. Season to taste and serve immediately.
If desired the soup can be garnished with toasted slivered almonds or croutons.
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