Fantastic, addictive, and incredibly simple to construct!
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 leeks (white and pale green parts only), thinly sliced
- 5 pounds potato, peeled and thinly sliced
- 2 quarts chicken broth
- 3 cups frozen peas
- 1 pinch dried tarragon
- 3 cups milk
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Melt butter in a large pot over medium-high heat. Cook and stir leeks in the melted butter until tender, 5 to 7 minutes.
- Stir potatoes and chicken broth into the leeks and bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low, cover the pot, and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 12 minutes.
- Stir peas and tarragon into the soup; simmer until peas are tender, about 5 minutes.
- Pour the soup into a blender, filling the pitcher no more than half full.
- Hold down the lid of the blender with a towel and carefully start the blender, using a few quick pulses to get the soup moving before leaving it on to puree. Puree in batches until smooth and pour into a clean pot. Alternately, you can use a stick blender and puree the soup in the pot.
- Pour milk into the pureed soup and bring to a simmer over medium heat until heated through. Season with salt and black pepper.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 356 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 67 g |
| Cholesterol | 16 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 9 g |
| Protein | 13 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 1095 mg |
| Sugars | 12 g |
| Fat | 4 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Good recipe except the milk quantity. I used half and the was plenty. We mixed cute kielbasa to the soup to make it a complete meal.
Way to many potatos. I’d put in half as much at most.
Fabulous recipe with excellent instructions!!
I absolutely loved the taste. The peas gave it a nice, sweet quality. But in the eyes of my 5 year old, it was “green stuff,” so she really struggled to even touch it. It’s not the most visually pleasing, but it tastes great!
My 3 year old ate it. My husband said it was missing ham hock and asked if it was split pea soup. I thought it was okay. Pretty decent recipe could use some tweaking but I doubt I will be making it again. I made it only to get rid of some leeks I had in the fridge and used fresh peas from my garden instead of frozen. Didn’t have tarragon so substituted oregano instead.