Special Leek and Potato soup. Potato leek soup, or potage parmentier, is a French classic. It's one of the first dishes I learned to make in culinary school, right after a proper omelet, because it's an essential base soup in French cuisine. Add watercress for potage au cresson, serve it chilled for Vichyssoise — or top it with bacon, fried leeks, fresh herbs, or.

Peel and roughly chop the onions. Peel and finely slice the garlic. This is the kind of soup that is so simple to make yet tastes like you really know your way around the kitchen. You can have Special Leek and Potato soup using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Special Leek and Potato soup

You need 4/5 of large potatoes.
Prepare 1 of large carrot.
Prepare 2 of large leeks.
Prepare 1 of medium onion.
Prepare 1 of garlic clove.
Prepare 2 of hot chillies.
Prepare 3 of vedge stock cubes.
It's of Lots of ground black pepper.
Prepare 1 of litter of water... ish.
It's 350 ml of cooking cream.
Prepare 2 of plum tomatoes.
It's of Lump of butter.

I grew up loving this classic soup as a kid, and eating it always brings me back to a happy place. Potato-leek soup is one of the most classic soups in the last several decades. It contains very few ingredients and it is a very simple, and delicately flavored soup. Leeks in the onion family, but are not the same as onions.

Special Leek and Potato soup step by step

Heat up butter and fry up onions. Once browned off, add chopped up potato, carrot and leek. Fry for 10 mins or so..
Mix up stock and add to mix. Then simmer for 20 mins or untill potatoes are cooked.
Throw in tomatoes and a couple of red chillies... to own taste.
Add cooking cream to taste and use a hand held blender. I like it creamy..
Warm through for another 5 mins and serve with crusty bread..
Enjoy.

Delia's Leek, Onion and Potato Soup recipe. This has to be one of my own top of the pops favourites and has proven to be one of my most popular recipes with everyone over the years. The chilled version of this soup is a classic vichyssoise. Either way, it's an absolute winner. Easy Dinner Idea - Potato Leek Soup With Chef's Special Toast.