Lightning Lager Can Soup
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TypeSoup
Serves4 people
DateSeptember 1, 2026
Soup with a wink: a tower of sausages and eggs as stacked beer cans in a golden party soup.
A festive, golden-yellow soup featuring a central stack of mini sausages and half eggs: together forming a beer can tower, just like the Californian beer heist. This soup celebrates sharing and enjoying together, exactly what the stolen beer was meant for.
Ingredients
- 2 onions
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 leek
- 2 carrots
- 1 liter chicken stock
- 250 ml blond beer (alcohol-free optional)
- 4 waxy potatoes
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 8 small boiled eggs
- 16 mini smoked sausages
- 1 bunch chives
- salt and pepper to taste
Method
- Chop the onions and finely mince the garlic.
- Slice the leek and carrots, dice the potatoes.
- Heat olive oil in a large pot and sauté onion and garlic for 3 minutes.
- Add leek, carrot, and potato, cook for 5 minutes.
- Pour in the stock and beer. Bring to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Blend the soup with a stick blender until smooth and golden. Season with salt and pepper.
- Heat the mini sausages as per package instructions. Cut the boiled eggs in half.
- Pour the soup into wide bowls. Stack 4 mini sausages in the center of each bowl, top with a half egg, rounded side up. Repeat for each bowl to create a 'beer can tower'.
- Garnish with finely chopped chives.
Serving notes
- Serve the soup in wide bowls so the tower is clearly visible.
- Place the bowls on the table and let everyone topple their own 'can tower' with a spoon.