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Avgolemono soup (chicken-lemon soup)

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Ingredients:
6 cupChicken stock
1/3 cupRice, white
2 Eggs
1/4 cupLemon juice
1/2 tspSalt
Procedures:
1Bring the stock to a boil in a large saucepan.
2Add the rice, cover and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.
3In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs.
4Whip the lemon juice into the eggs.
5Constantly whip the lemon-egg mixture while you add 2 cups of the hot stock, without rice.
6Just before serving, and the egg, lemon and stock mixture to the rest of the rice and chicken stock, whisking constantly while heating the soup over a medium-low burner.
7Do not boil the soup or the eggs will coagulate.
8Add the salt.
9Let the soup stand covered off the burner for 5 minutes.
10original recipe from "the ultimate soup book"