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Garlic soup might sound strange but it is really delicious. This simple soup uses only a handful of ingredients: water, eggs, garlic, sage, day-old bread, and an oil or fat of some kind. Ingredients that I almost always have on hand. This is the meal I make when I haven’t gotten around to grocery shopping and I have nothing else on hand to pull together.
Despite its simplicity, this soup is packed with nutrition and it costs only $1 per serving. Garlic is known as a cure-all ingredient. This is one of my cold-and-flu home remedies that I make any time someone in my house is feeling under-the-weather.
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French Garlic Soup
- Prep Time: 5 min
- Cook Time: 30 min
- Total Time: 30 min
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: Soup
- Method: Boiling
- Cuisine: French
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
This simple soup is light, inexpensive, nutritious and will warm you from the inside.
Ingredients
8 cups water/ chicken broth/ vegetable broth
20 crushed garlic cloves
10 fresh sage leaves
2 cups chopped swiss chard/kale/spinach/parsley or a mix of these (optional)
Salt and Pepper
8 slices of day old bread, toasted
4 eggs
Duck fat/ Butter/ Olive Oil for finishing
Instructions
Make the Garlic Broth
Bring the water/stock and the crushed garlic to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes or until the garlic is pretty soft. Add the sage leaves and cook for another 5 minutes.
Using a slotted spoon, transfer the garlic and sage leaves to a bowl. Pick out and discard the sage. Crush the garlic with a fork and transfer it back to the broth. Season with salt and pepper. Add the 2 cups of chopped greens if using.
Poach your eggs.
You can either do this in the garlic broth or a separate pot of acidified simmering water. If you poach in a separate pot, it will make the presentation nicer as you won’t have all the stringy white bits that come away from the egg. Do I care about the presentation when I’m cooking for my family? Nope. I do care about how many dishes I have to do afterward, so I tend to poach these in the garlic broth. If you need an egg poaching demo, check out this quick video Gordon Ramsay Demonstrates How To Prepare The Perfect Poached Egg | TASTE OF FOX.
Assemble your bowls
Place two pieces of toasted bread in each of 4 bowls. Top with an egg. Pour the garlic broth over and drizzle or spoon in about 1 Tablespoon of duck fat, olive oil or butter. Duck fat would be my preference here. Serve.
Notes
If you have unflavored gelatin powder on hand, you can add it to your soup to make a “Cheater Bone Broth”
I made this soup last night and I will definitely make it again. It was, as you said, easy, nutritious, and delicious. I didn’t have any greens to add. I usually do, so I will add them next time.
Hi Connie,
So glad you enjoyed it!
Cheers,
Kara