Onion avgolemono soup

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ingredients:

450ml/ 3/4pt skimmed milk
2 egg yolks
4 large onions, thinly sliced
1/2 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 thick slices wholemeal bread, cubed
salt and freshly ground black pepper
50g/ 2oz low-fat spread or butter
450ml/ 3/4pt vegetable stock

How to cook ?

  • Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas mark 6.
  • Melt the low-fat advance or adulate in a abundant saucepan, add the onions and baker gently, covered, for 10 minutes, active from time to time, until soft. Add the stock, and division with a little alkali and pepper. Bring to the boil, abate the calefaction and simmer acclaim for 30 minutes.
  • Stir in the milk and calefaction through.
  • Barrel the egg yolks with the auto juice. Add 2 ladlefuls of the hot soup and barrel well. Stir the egg and auto admixture into the soup, and heat through gently, still stirring, until hardly thickened. Do not acquiesce the soup to abscess or the egg will curdle.
  • To accomplish the croutons, advance out the aliment cubes on a baking tray, and bake in the oven for 10 account until a abysmal aureate brown.
  • Ladle the soup into balmy alone bowls, and baptize with the croutons just afore serving.

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