This substantial, simple-to-make potato-leek soup is delicious and full of flavor. Yukon potatoes are used to give it a creamier texture. To create a wonderful lunch that your family and guests will adore, serve with crusty bread and salad.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 40 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons grapeseed oil
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 4 medium Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and chopped
- 3 medium leeks, white and light green parts only, thinly sliced
- 3 stalks celery, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 6 cups chicken broth
- 5 sprigs fresh thyme, chopped
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 4 slices cooked bacon, crumbled (Optional)
Instructions
- Heat oil and butter in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add potatoes, leeks, and celery; cook and stir until leeks are tender, about 8 minutes. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Stir in broth, thyme, salt, and pepper. Cover and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook, uncovered, until potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes.
- Transfer 4 cups soup into a blender. Remove the top insert of the blender and cover with a paper towel; puree until smooth. Add puree back to the Dutch oven.
- Stir in heavy cream and cook over medium-low until slightly thickened, 10 to 15 more minutes. Ladle into bowls and garnish with crumbled bacon.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 431 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 30 g |
| Cholesterol | 85 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 6 g |
| Protein | 9 g |
| Saturated Fat | 15 g |
| Sodium | 1437 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 32 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Made exactly as recipe. Delicious.
This is similar to my long-standing potato leek soup recipe. As usual, today I mostly followed this recipe, but instead of butter I rendered the fat from some pancetta until it was crispy, which I then removed from the pot. I then sweated the leeks and celery in the pancetta fat. After that I followed the recipe, adding the crispy pancetta at the end instead of bacon. It was really good according to my wife, my most discerning critic.