French
Soupe Poireaux-Pommes de Terre (Leek and Potato Soup)
Soupe Poireaux-Pommes de Terre (Leek and Potato Soup) is French home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 leeks, white and light green parts
- 4 potatoes
- 1 onion
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 6 cups vegetable broth
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Heat the olive oil in a large pot and cook the sliced leeks and chopped onion over medium-low heat until soft and translucent, about 10 minutes.
- Add the diced potatoes, the vegetable broth, and the bay leaf, and bring to a boil.
- Lower the heat and simmer uncovered for 20 minutes, until the potatoes fall apart easily when pressed with a spoon.
- Fish out the bay leaf, then mash the soup roughly with a fork, or blend part of it for a creamier texture, letting the potato starch alone thicken it.
- Season with the salt and pepper and ladle into bowls while hot.
Serve it with
A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Soupe Poireaux-Pommes de Terre (Leek and Potato Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Soupe Poireaux-Pommes de Terre (Leek and Potato Soup) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Soupe Poireaux-Pommes de Terre (Leek and Potato Soup) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on leek and potato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from northern France.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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