Ever since we visited
Iceland back in May and I had the most amazing, warming, comforting lamb soup when we went to see the geysirs, I've wanted to try to recreate the soup in my own kitchen. Now we're in our new house I knew that this was
the recipe to christen the kitchen!
I love trying traditional food whenever I visit new places so ordering it from the lunch buffet in the geysir visitor centre at Haukadalur was a given. To be honest, besides the beautiful stonewear bowl it was served in, it didn't look too impressive. It seemed really watery with bits of lamb, potato, carrot, turnip and onion floating around…I'm really selling it, hey?! Not wanting to give up on it too early on I found a table with a great view of the geysirs and got stuck in.
Lesson from this - first impressions are sometimes a bit rubbish. It was full of flavour, the meat was so tender, the veg had just the right bite and it was perfectly seasoned. I polished off the meat and veg, dunked wedges of buttered bread and then slurped up the final drops of the broth. Feeling full and cozy I made myself a promise that I had to have this soup again. Iceland is a bit of a trek to go just for a bowl of soup so there was only one option - make it myself.