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| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 medium yellow onion, finely chopped
- 2 shallots, finely chopped
- 3 green onions, finely chopped
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon herbes de Provence
- 2 pounds potatoes, peeled and diced
- 4 cups vegetable broth
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup creme fraiche
Instructions
- Heat olive oil and butter in a large, heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high heat. Add onion, shallots, green onions, salt, and pepper; saute until softened and beginning to brown, 4 to 6 minutes. Add garlic and herbes de Provence; saute until garlic is fragrant, about 30 seconds. Avoid burning the garlic; it will turn bitter.
- Add potatoes to onion mixture and toss well to coat. Pour in vegetable broth and milk; stir well. Cover pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, until potatoes are tender and can be easily broken up with a spoon, 10 to 12 minutes.
- Use a potato masher or the back of a wooden spoon to roughly mash the potato chunks until the soup is relatively smooth and the largest chunks have been broken up.
- Whisk creme fraiche into the soup and taste for seasoning. Add additional pinches of salt or black pepper if the soup tastes flat.
- If you can’t find creme fraiche, you could also try adding heavy cream or full fat (not light!) sour cream, which may add a bit of tangy flavor to the finished soup.
- Substitute chicken broth for the vegetable broth if preferred.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 460 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 57 g |
| Cholesterol | 53 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 7 g |
| Protein | 10 g |
| Saturated Fat | 11 g |
| Sodium | 827 mg |
| Sugars | 11 g |
| Fat | 23 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This was wonderful… thanks for posting Lynne! I was looking for a traditional Alsatian recipe that my grandmother used to make that was really stripped down… seems like it was only potatoes in water cooked down, and then like celery, celery seed, carrots, and a couple other things, and a couple other spices, but don’t have the recipe so thought I’d give yours a try. Glad I did!! Thanks.