Leek and Potato Soup

[Jilly]

Here you go Missredhead, I did end up using the BBC recipe in the end, just upped the quantity a bit as I was batch cooking for my lunches this week.

1 tbs vegetable oil
1 Onion sliced
225g potatoes cubed
2 medium leeks sliced
1.2 litres vegetable or chicken stock
150ml cream
salt & pepper

Method
1. Heat the oil in large pan and add the onions, potatoes & leeks. Cook for 3-4 minutes until starting to soften.

2. Add the stock and bring to the boil, season well & simmer until the veg is tender.

3. Whizz with hand blender or in a blender until smooth. Reheat in a clean pan, stir through the cream, heat & serve.

I used 4 leeks because that's what I had & about 650g of potatoes, so just topped up the liquid until it looked right for soup. I used OH's home made chicken stock (which wasn't brown   ) I must have been looking at something else in the freezer. That was quite strongly flavoured so I just made up the liquid with water, but would normally have added a stock cube.

Was going to chill down for lunches so wouldn't have normally bothered with the cream, but we had some, & I do think it made a difference.

Pic as promised.

[Missredhead]

Looks yummy Jilly.....I think I might try that, I bought myself one of those hand blenders a while ago but have not used it yet...now maybe the time to get it out.
Thank you