Easter Midnight Soup

Magiritsa (Easter Lamb Soup) Recipe

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Magiritsa is a lamb soup that is the main course of a midnight meal eaten after the final Greek Orthodox Easter service on a Saturday night. This year (2014) I was fortunate enough to document my mother's recipe in this video. Since I normally do not eat meat, I requested that we use lamb meat from an organic butcher but otherwise this is the same recipe that my mother has used all along.

Here are the ingredients:
Lamb shank
Onion
Shallots
Dill
Butter
Rice
Pepper
Egg
Lemon juice

You'll Need:

a lamb's liver, heart, lights and intestines
juice of 3 lemons
salt
6 spring onions, trimmed, rinsed and finely sliced
25 gr. butter
2 cos lettuces, trimmed, shredded and rinsed carefully (use only their young leaves and hearts)
about a teacupful of fresh dill or fennel, rinsed and finely chopped, or parsley
1.2 lt hot water
salt and black pepper
60 gr. rice

Avgolemono Sauce
2 eggs
juice of 2 lemons

Serves 6 persons!

Procedures : Rinse all the meat. Turn the intestines inside out with the help of a thin stick and rinse them thoroughly. Rub them with salt and lemon juice and rinse them again. Cube them into small portions. In a large saucepan, sautee the onions in the butter, until they start to change colour. Add the chopped intestines, liver, lights and heart, fry together for a few minutes, stirring. Add the shredded lettuces and all the fresh herbs and sautee for a few more minutes. Add the hot water, and seasoning, cover and cook for 30 minutes. Then add the rice and cook for a further 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and let it stand for 10 minutes, before proceeding with the avgolemono sauce. Add the Avgolemono Sauce to the soup, stirring. Return to a very gentle heat for 2 minutes, stirring at the same time. It should be by now a quite a thick soup