Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, easy pumpkin, leek and potato soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Add leeks, onion, celery, carrot, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and garlic, and saute until they start to brown. Although I'm sure fresh is better, this soup turned out very tasty!! This leek and potato soup recipe is easy and delicious. Find more dinner inspiration at BBC Good Food.
Easy Pumpkin, leek and potato 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 fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Easy Pumpkin, leek and potato soup is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook easy pumpkin, leek and potato soup using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Pumpkin, leek and potato soup:
- Take 2 kg Pumpkin
- Prepare 2 medium potatoes
- Prepare 3 clove garlic
- Take 1 leek
- Prepare 1 1/2 liter vegetable stock
- Get 300 ml cooking cream
- Prepare 5 grams fresh chives
- Make ready 1 pinch salt and pepper to taste
More often than not I don't use leeks because I simply forget to buy them. This Pumpkin Soup is really smooth and creamy even though it doesn't. Before starting, it's important to wash the leeks well — they are notoriously dirty. I made this soup and it was delicious.
Steps to make Easy Pumpkin, leek and potato soup:
- peel and dice the pumpkin into about 2cm chunks. you should end up with about 1.25 to 1.5kg of diced pumpkin
- wash and slice the leek
- peel and dice the potatoes into similar size chunks as the pumpkin
- peel the 3 cloves of garlic but leave them whole.
- in a large pot or saucepan add the vegetable stock. you can either use ready made stock or 1.5lt of boiling water with the appropriate quantity of stock cubes.
- add the pumpkin, potato, leek, salt, pepper and garlic into the pot with the stock and allow to simmer until all ingredients cooked through and soft. remember to keep stirring every 5 minutes or so.
- while the vegetables are cooking, finely chopped the chives and add half into the pan with the vegetables to allow to cook with them. keep the other half for garnish.
- once the vegetables are cooked use either a stick blender to blend into a liquid or use a blender then transfer back into the pot.
- turn the heat down to low and stir in the cooking cream until mixed through.
- ready to serve. you can use prewarmed bowls if you like and garnish each serving with a little of the remaining chives. always nice to serve with some toasted bread chunks.
Before starting, it's important to wash the leeks well — they are notoriously dirty. I made this soup and it was delicious. I did not have a stick blender but it was actually fine. I have made potato leek before and for that you would definitely have to blend it but the. Potato Leek Soup is a classic!
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