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Egg and lemon sauce I

 

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Avgolemono 

4 servings

Ingredients: 

3 Eggs

Juice of two lemons or more

1 cup hot stock (meat or vegetable stock) 

 

Directions:  

Beat egg; until frothy then add yolks one by one continue beating adding gradually lemon juice.

Pour gradually one ladle of the reserved warm stock, stirring constantly.

Stir sauce into a soup or stew and heat gently.

Bend back and forth saucepan to distribute sauce evenly. 

Do not boil sauce will curdle.

For richer and thicker sauce use the next recipe.

Egg and lemon sauce II

Avgolemono

Tip: Eggs and lemons should be used at room temperature.  

This sauce is ideal for plenty of Greek recipes, soups, stews and other meal preparations that you will find in my other web pages.    

Directions:

Reserve any boiled vegetable liquids, chicken or veal stocks for future use, but not more than 3 days and (fish liquids for fish recipes.)

Boil in a saucepan the amount needed of one the above stock/liquid, for 5 minutes. Dilute cornstarch in a bowl with cold water and blend it into sauce, whisking constantly over low heat, until sauce thickens.          

Beat egg yolks thoroughly with the lemon juice and stir gradually into the sauce and cooked over very low heat, until sauce thickens to your satisfaction.

Taste for salt and lemony taste. If is to sour add little sugar.

Be careful not to overheat the sauce it may curdle. Then pour it into pot with your recipe, stew or soup, tilde or shake pot to distribute sauce evenly.

Re-heating left over, careful, do not boil. Only very low heat or microwave at low temperature.

Cook with fresh ingredients and pure Greek olive oil

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