Garlic soup

I learned this recipe from Ferran Adria’s book “La Comida de la Familia”. It’s a traditional recipe from Spanish cuisine, and while the recipe is very simple I love how it tastes. I recommend it to have it as dinner on cold nights, thought it can be a little bit heavy to digest.

Ingredients (2 pax)

• 2 garlic cloves.
• 1 liter of chicken broth.
• 2 loaves of rustic bread.
• 40 ml of olive oil.
• 4 chicken eggs.

Garlic soup ingredients

Directions

Soup

1 - Heat the oil and fry the bread in a pot. The bread will absorb a lot of oil, if you see that it is dry, add more oil. Once the bread is golden brown, set it aside for later.

Fried bread

2 - Peel the garlic and smash it. Put the smashed garlic in the pot and fry them.

Smashed garlic

3 - Add the fried bread and the chicken broth to the same pot and boil it for 20 minutes.

Boiling

4 - Finally blend it with a hand blender.

Final result

Poached eggs

1. Put some water to boil. Once it’s boiling lower the heat to the minimum.
2. Open the egg and boil it for a couple of minutes. The intention is to poach the egg, ie: boil the white while keeping the yolk raw.
3. Add the poached eggs to the soup.