Mock Turtle Soup Food

TREME (MOCK) TURTLE SOUP

Steps:

• On the stovetop, sauté the sirloin, celery, garlic, and onion in butter until meat is brown and veggies are translucent. Add to the slow cooker.
• Add tomato puree, chicken broth, beef broth, flour mixture, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, hot sauce, bay leaves, thyme, salt, and pepper to the slow cooker. Stir.
• Cook on low heat for 4 hours.
• Add lemon juice, parsley, and eggs 30 minutes before serving.
• Immediately before serving, remove bay leaves, add sherry to taste, and garnish with lemon slices.

EASY MOCK TURTLE SOUP

Steps:

• Brown ground beef; add all ingredients to the ground beef in a large pot; cook 1 to 1.5 hours.
• Keep lid on for first 1/2 hour.
• Add browned flour gradually, stirring constantly.
• Add 2 chopped hard-boiled eggs; cook another 1/2 hour.
• Browned flour: Brown 10 tablespoons flour in a skillet, stirring constantly. Add a little water to make a thick paste.

MOCK TURTLE SOUP

Steps:

• Put all ingredients in a large stock pot, except for the hard boiled eggs.
• Cook over medium heat until boiling.
• Cover pot and simmer for 3 hours.
• Add hard boiled eggs, chopped at 2 hour 45 minutes.

MOCK TURTLE SOUP

Steps:

• Brown onion in the butter and oil, add the oxtails and brown slightly. Add the spices and herbs, then stir in the flour until it bubbles, adding more butter and oil as needed. Pour in the hot water and stock and bring to a boil. Add the remaining ingredients, except the egg and sherry. Simmer for 2 hours. Remove the oxtail, cut the meat and marrow away--add back to the soup and discard the bones.
• When ready to serve, chop the eggs coarsely and stir into the soup. Ladle into bowls, stir in a teaspoon of sherry to each, top with parsley -- and put a cruet of sherry on the table, for atmosphere if nothing else.