Creamy Leek Soup
Recipe: #35809
October 03, 2020
Categories: Leek, Potatoes, Italian, Birthday, Christmas, Easter, Romantic Dinner, St Patricks Day Sunday Dinner, Gluten-Free, Vegetarian, more
"Serve with fresh crusty bread this soup is a winner. I use a vegetarian chicken stock for this, but vegetable or chicken can be used. I was lucky enough to be given a beautiful Italian cooking book by my wonderful mother, this is one of the wonderful recipe's in this dearly loved book. NOTE ~ I like soup chunky but if you like a smooth soup then after adding the milk (BEFORE the potato's) you can use an immersion blender to blend the leeks."
Original is 6 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (362.8 g)
- Calories 269.8
- Total Fat - 15.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 8.9 g
- Cholesterol - 73.6 mg
- Sodium - 422.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 25.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.1 g
- Sugars - 2.4 g
- Protein - 8.7 g
- Calcium - 114.2 mg
- Iron - 1.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 22.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Wash potato's and boil the potato's in their skin in salted water for about 20 -30 minutes and allow to cool slightly; Peel and mash.
Step 2
Meanwhile prepare the leeks: Remove the roots and tough outer layers and most of the darker green parts, (using mostly the white to light green parts) and slice thinly & horizontally, wash thoroughly under cold running water and drain them well.
Step 3
Melt half the butter in a large pan and add the leeks and cook over a medium heat until golden (they cook quickly and, if you don't check them often, you risk burning them, so keep an eye on them).
Step 4
See NOTE in description ~ Add the milk and the mashed potato and season to taste. Pour in the stock, stirring really well with a wooden spoon and reduce the heat and leave to simmer for about 30 minutes.
Step 5
Put the parsley into a bowl with the egg yolk and cream and add 4 teaspoons of the grated parmesan cheese ~ mix together carefully and put into the soup. Simmer soup for 2-3 minutes, then remove from the heat.
Step 6
Serve in bowl with fresh crust bread.
Tips
No special items needed.
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