Potato Leek Soup Recipe
Potato Soup Tip
Slow and low is the way to cook your potato soup. Because of the high
starch content of potato soup you have to be careful not to burn it. If
you scorch the bottom of your potato soup it will have that burnt taste
all through the soup. So remember its a low and slow cooking technique
for that potato soup recipe.
Potato Leek Soup is one of the fastest growing recipes in the world. Not sure why this is but I'll go with it for now. The leeks in my opinion don't do a whole lot for the taste of texture of the soup but do add some color.
POTATO LEEK SOUP
4 leeks
5 potatoes
1/3 cup butter
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup light cream
1 quart of chicken stock
1/2 teaspoon fresh chopped chervil
1/2 cup chopped celery and shallots
1/4 cup chopped shallots
Garnish with parsley
Cut the potatoes into quarters.
Remove the green leafs from the leeks then split them down the center to make them easier to clean. Wash the leeks to remove all the sand and dirt. Dice the leeks to a consistent size and sauté them in a pan with half of the butter and shallots till they are translucent. In a large pot add the chicken stock, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, celery, the quartered potatoes, and simmer till potatoes are tender. Remove the potatoes and leeks to a food processor and puree them and them put back into the pot. Now add the milk, cream, and the other half of the butter. Heat to a simmer and then remove from the heat.
Potato Soup Recipe Facts
Potato Soup recipe facts that i bet you didn't know...
Just one Potato Provides
1 potato will provide you with about 40% of your
vitamin C and 20% of your potassium needs for the day.
one potato a day
Did you know that every American eats about 130 pounds of potatoes every year? That works out to about 1 potato a day for everyone.
Random potato facts
Potatoes are only second to milk as the most consumed and that Europeans eat more than twice as many potatoes as Americans. Also potatoes hold the record as being the first vegetable to be grown in space by NASA in 1995.
Do you have some interesting Potato Soup Recipe facts?