winter warming soup
2010
Today has been yet another cold, grey and drizzly day and early morning mass left me chiled to the bone. Yet now, as the night and cold deepen, our bellies are deliciously warm with the best winter soup I have ever made.
So, whilst the quantities are still fresh in my mind, I thought I’d better write it down so I can come back and make it again and maybe you would like to try it too!
Ingredients
1 leek, washed and finely sliced
2 dutch cream pot potatoes, diced small
2 corn cobs, kernels sliced off
1 free range chicken breast, diced small
salt and pepper to season
1 teaspoon of dry tarragon
1 bay leaf
1 litre of chicken stock
Method
Saute the leeks VERY GENTLY (it’s so important to put the stove down as low as it can go to saute the leeks ’cause if they brown, they are tough, bitter and spoil the colour of the broth) until soft. Add the diced potato, salt and pepper, and tarragon. Stir. Add the chicken breast and increase the heat to medium. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the chicken is white. Add the stock, corn kernels and bay leaf. Simmer half and hour – potato should be soft when the soup is ready. Remove bay leaf and serve steaming hot. I use smallish deep bowls which keeps the soup hot for longer – those lovely old fashioned soup plates – you know the ones I mean, they are like a dinner plate, with just an inch depression for the soup – they cool the soup in moments – posh but impractical when you are wanting to stay warm. Must be our peasant ancestry!
I hope you like it :-) … we do!
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Sounds delicious but what are dutch cream pot potatoes?
Not a variety I have come across here in the UK but presumably you could dice any potatoes or even a mix of ordinary potatoes and diced sweet potatoes for a variation? At long last it is a bit warm for soup here but I shall definitely try this out as soon as the weather cools a little.(Probably next week if we have a typical English summer.)
Ah, Lily, your soup sounds glorious. I’ll print it out and save it for autumn. It is hot and humid and muggy here Near Philadelphia today and we are putting on the air conditioner for the first time this season. It was good to see your post this morning; I miss you when you go too long without!
Looks delicious!! Can’t wait to give it a try.
oh yum. Will definitely be giving that a go