Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, potato and leek soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
There is nothing better on a chilly, damp day than a steaming bowl of potato leek soup; and conversely, few things are as delicious and refreshing on a hot, sweaty day than a bowl of ice cold vichyssoise. 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.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have potato and leek soup using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Potato and Leek Soup:
- Prepare 1 quart chicken broth
- Prepare 2/3 pound smoked bacon
- Take 3 cups chopped savory cabbage
- Get 6 medium sized potatoes
- Prepare 2 large carrots
- Get 1 leek
- Get 1 medium onion
- Get 1-1/2 teaspoon pink Himalayan salt
- Make ready 1 teaspoon caraway seeds
- Make ready 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- Take 1/3 cup parsley flakes
- Prepare 1 leaf bay leaf
- Take 2/3 cup sour cream
Serve the soup as the starter to a steak dinner (steak and potatoes, right?), or roasted chicken. Chop the leeks into small pieces. Heat the oil in a large pan and add the onions, potatoes and leeks. Add the vegetable stock and bring to the boil.
Steps to make Potato and Leek Soup:
- Chop the cabbage, peel the carrots, and fry the bacon. Wash and dice the potatoes.
- Cut the the carrots. Dice the onion. Wash the leek very well. Then slice.
- Add the butter and melt in the pot add all but the sour cream to the melted butter. Crumble the bacon and add. Simmer on low till all the vegetables are tender. About an hour covered.
- Take two cups of broth from the soup. Add the sour cream to the broth you took out and whisk till mixed well.
- Pour mixture back into the soup and incorporate well cover and allow to rest for 15 minutes. Serve I hope you enjoy!!!!!
Place potatoes into a large saucepan with water to cover. Bring to a boil and cook until tender. Meanwhile, saute leeks in butter until translucent. The leek potato soup with rolls and side salad is a full meal for a cold evening, yes it does get cool, even in San Diego. Can you use an immersion blender and get similar results?
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