British

Leek and Potato Soup

Name: Leek and Potato Soup
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 3 leek; 1.5 lb potato; 1 onion; 4 cups vegetable stock; 1/3 cup heavy cream; 2 tbsp butter; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Simon @simon_roasts

Leek and Potato Soup is British home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Medium Vegetarian Gluten free Pescatarian Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

3 leek
1.5 lb potato
1 onion
4 cups vegetable stock
1/3 cup heavy cream
2 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Melt the butter in a large pot and cook the sliced leek and onion until soft, about 8 minutes.
Add the chunked potato and vegetable stock, bring to a simmer, and cook until the potato is very tender, about 20 minutes.
Blend until smooth, then stir in the cream and season with salt and pepper.
Serve hot, or chilled on a warm day.

Watch how to cook Leek and Potato Soup

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A British dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Leek and Potato Soup, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cauliflower Cheese
  
  40 min
What it is eaten with
- British Mashed Potatoes
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Leek and Potato Soup carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Leek and Potato Soup
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Salad with New Potatoes
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

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 360 kcal
Protein: 3 g
Carbs: 38 g
Fat: 22 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 450 mg
Saturated fat: 12 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Leek and Potato Soup takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.