Recipe Irish Leek And Potato Soup

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This Irish Potato Leek Soup is creamy and decadent and uses only FOUR ingredients – potatoes, leeks, broth, and plenty of butter – with no cream or milk! It’s cheap, comes together in 30 minutes, and is a beautifully simple recipe for St. Patrick’s Day or early spring, when leeks are in season and the weather is still cool.

Even though this soup has a creamy texture, it has NO milk or cream- just leeks, potatoes, chicken stock, and plenty of good, salted, Irish butter.

And it’s very easily adaptable to be vegetarian or even vegan by using vegetable stock and olive oil instead of butter, and dairy free with ghee.

Irish Leek & Potato Soup Recipe

But I do recommend, strongly, using really good quality salted Irish butter for this. I’m almost an exclusive Kerrygold butter user, and it was perfect in this soup. So perfect, in fact, that I used an entire stick

But it’s SO good with the butter. Butter sometimes has people scurrying away, but the same people often add heavy cream, oil, or other fat-laden ingredients to recipes without batting an eye.

First of all, the salt in salted butter helps season the entire thing. The richness of the flavor gets in every bite, and all the delicious fat coats every morsel of the starchy potatoes

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(and when I say “stick” of butter, I mean a standard stick- Kerrygold comes in portions that are actually a full cup, so keep that in mind if you use it!).

If you’ve ever used them before, you know that they often are pretty dirty. The dirt they grow in gets in all the layers of the leeks. So it’s really important to clean them properly.

Here’s a foolproof method for cleaning leeks.First, trim the dark green parts off. Then, halve them lengthwise, and slice them thinly, into about 1/4 inch pieces.

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Place all those slices in a large container and cover them with a LOT of water. Then, use your hands to separate out all the pieces of the leeks and stir them around a bit, loosening any dirt that’s clinging to them.

The dirt will sink to the bottom of the container. Use a slotted spoon to remove the leeks to a colander, since pouring them out into the colander would just redistribute all that dirt on top of them. Then, give them one final rinse when they’re in the colander.

Now you’re ready to use them! You can do this a couple of days in advance if you want and keep the prepped leeks in a container in the fridge until you’re ready to use them.

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But because of the high fat content in this soup, you can absolutely freeze it! Same goes with mashed potatoes, as long as there’s a lot of fat in them.

This is a great recipe to make ahead of time- it reheats wonderfully. You can keep it in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 6 months or in the fridge for up to about 5 days.

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I used an immersion blender – one of my all-time FAVORITE kitchen tools – to puree this soup and get it to a velvety smooth consistency right in the pot.

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An immersion blender is like a magic wand you can stick directly in the soup pot to puree it. It’s faster and simpler than using a standing blender and it does a great job at making it silky smooth. Plus, it’s WAY easier to clean than a normal blender!

You can even use an immersion blender to make single serve smoothies by pureeing all the ingredients directly in your jar or cup or whatever you plan on drinking the smoothie out of.

If you don’t have an immersion blender, you can absolutely use a standing blender to puree this potato leek soup in batches. Be careful, since it’s hot!

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Sure! For a more rustic, chunky potato leek soup, you can just use a potato masher to break up the potatoes at the end after they’ve cooked.

I recommend topping this soup with some chopped chives, fresh cracked black pepper, and a little bit of sour cream. I thinned my sour cream out a little with milk to get that pretty swirl you see in the photos

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This simple Irish Potato Leek Soup has only FOUR ingredients and comes together in only 30 minutes! There's no milk or cream in this recipe- just leeks, potatoes, stock, and plenty of butter.

The provided nutrition information is my best estimate and does not include any added sodium from seasoning to taste, any optional ingredients, and it does not take brands into account. I use an automatic API to calculate this information. Feel free to calculate it yourself using one of these tools:Potato Leek Soup is an Irish favorite. Itis just what you need on these cold nights when old man winter still refuses to release you from his icy clutches. Making this soup is so easy. You only need about 30 minutes. The ingredients are simple: butter, leeks, potatoes, salt, pepper and stock (vegetable or chicken). I will say this, if you can find Irish butter, use it. It tastes so much fresher and creamier than U.S. butter.

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Although mostly associated with Ireland, potato leek soup is also popular in Scotland where it's known by the spunky name of

It kind of sounds like a children's outdoor game, doesn't it? The Welsh, not to be outdone in the naming game, call potato leek soup Tattie and Leekie, equally amusing name isn't it? Leeks belong to the Allium family. Basically they are in the category of onions, garlic, shallots and scallions. Leeks are the mild-mannered relative. Its delicate taste lends them to many uses: sauté and put over rice or a tossed salad.

Potato Leek Soup is one of those simple ethnic dishes. It probably arose from stretching the food supply. Think about it! It is pretty obviously made of leftover ingredients easily procured in a nearby/family orchard. My husband's German aunt used to make Leek and Potato Soup and it was delicious. She did it the old fashioned way. How? Well, after everything was cooked, she would take a fine sieve and push down the solids through the mesh with a pestle. Yeah, talk about dedication! I guess if I wanted to be 100%authentic I could do it this way, maybe. Nah, I don't have the muscle power or the patience.

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Now, for the texture. I must confess, I am a texture kind of girl. I don't like my creamy soups chunky, I like them creamy. I don't like big chunks of anything in my soup either. Yeah, you can say I am PICKY. Soooo, needless to say, I like my leek and potato soup very smooth.

Needless to say, the immersion blender is my friend. Sprinkle some chopped chives on top and drizzle on some heavy cream or sour cream. Food is also supposed to be pretty, right? And don't forget that chunk of Irish Brown Bread. Potato leek soup wouldn't be the same without it.

Leeks are thought to hail from Central Asia, where they've been cultivated for over 1, 000 years. Leeks were highly esteemed in antiquity. Egyptian drawings and carvings are evidence that leeks were most likely part of the Egyptian diet. Yes, the guys that built the pyramids probably ate leeks! So how did a vegetable from Central Asia get to the British Isles? Well, it is thought that leeks were brought to Britain by the Phoenicians who traded with the Welsh. No surprise then that the leek features prominently in Welsh historyas their national symbol

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The Romans valued their leeks because they thought them to have medicinal benefits, especially for the throat. It will come as no surprise then that the infamous Nero, supposedly ate large quantities of leeks, to improve his singing voice out of all things! Nero liked to sing? I thought he just liked to play with fire and the fiddle. Too bad the leeks did nothing to improve his humanity.

You must first prepare your leeks before adding them to the soup. Leeks are most often grown in very sandy soils and will accumulate sand in between layers so proper cleaning is a must.

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