Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, easy potato leek soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Easy Potato Leek Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Easy Potato Leek Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Potato leek soup, or potage parmentier, is a French classic. It's one of the first dishes I learned to make in culinary school, right after a proper omelet, because it's an essential base soup in French cuisine. Add watercress for potage au cresson, serve it chilled for Vichyssoise — or top it with bacon.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have easy potato leek soup using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Potato Leek Soup:
- Make ready 2 leeks, white and pale green parts only, washed and chopped
- Make ready 1/2 cup onion, chopped
- Get 4 chives, chopped
- Make ready 2 clove garlic, diced
- Prepare 2 tbsp butter
- Make ready 6 large potatoes, peeled and cubed
- Get 4 cup low sodium chicken broth
- Take 1 cup half and half
- Make ready 1 shredded cheddar cheese to taste
- Prepare 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
- Take 1 salt and pepper to taste
This potato leek soup is heavy on the leeks, with just enough potato to give the soup its signature creamy texture. This is a recipe you can assemble in the slow cooker and leave for the whole day, coming home to the sweet, earthy, caramel perfume of long-cooked leeks and potato. This version is almost identical to the full-blown version, with the exception that rather than pressing the potatoes through a ricer, you just dump all of the ingredients into a blender, blending it just until puréed (the more you blend it the gluier it becomes). Cream is added to potatoes and leeks cooked in chicken broth in this simple, easy-to-prepare soup.
Steps to make Easy Potato Leek Soup:
- In a pot over medium heat, cooked the leeks, onion, chives, and garlic until tender. About 5 min. Add the potatoes and broth. Cook until potatoes are tender. (About 20-25 min)
- Add half and half, and continue to simmer until it starts to thicken slightly. (About 10 min)
- Divide the soup in half and place one half in a blender. Once smooth, add back into the pot. This will help release some of the starch from the potatoes to help thicken it as well. Although if you like a chunkier soup you can skip this step.
- Add the cheese, parsley, salt and pepper to taste. Stir continuously until cheese is melted, about 5 min.
- Dish into bowl, top with some more cheese, and a sprig of parsley. Serve and enjoy :)
A quick and easy soup that tastes great. I like to take a potato masher and roughly mash some of the potatoes. This helps to thicken the soup. This leek and potato soup recipe is easy and delicious. Find more dinner inspiration at BBC Good Food.
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