Wanna Green Bean: Potato Soup

12 March 2008

Potato Soup

So, potato soup is boring and white looking, with maybe little bits and pieces in it. But the taste is much more exciting.

I started with a basic Potato Leek Soup from Simply Recipes and modified it a little to fit my taste, ending up with a tasty smooth simple potato soup.

Ingredients:
3 large leeks
2 Tbsp butter
2 cups water
2 cups chicken broth (or veggie broth)
4 medium to large sized potatoes
Salt & Pepper

Start with three leeks:

Trim the leafy bits and the hairy bits from them:
(Dude! They took my hair off!)

Slice them lengthwise:
(Wow, man! Look at your insides!)

Then chop them all to pieces, and rinse them well in a colander:
(Well this sucks.)

Melt the butter in a really big soup pot:

Add the leeks and cook on low for 10 minutes. DO NOT LET THEM BURN OR BROWN! They’ll taste gross if you do.

While those are cooking, peel and chop the potatoes into about 1/2 inch pieces (or smaller if you want them to cook faster):

(Dude, you’re nekkid. Yeah man so are you!)

Add them to the leeks and add the water and broth:

Cook for 20 Minutes. The soup is almost done when the potatoes are easily pierced with a fork, and the mix looks kinda goupy:

Now comes the tricky part.

If you have a stick blender you can stick in the pot to blend up some of the potatoes, this is the easiest way.

If you don’t very very carefully, pour out half of the soup. Put that into a blender and blend until smooth. CAREFULLY! This stuff is hot hot hot!

Add the blended mixture back into the other half still in the pot and stir to combine.

Carefully do a taste test without burning your tongue. Add salt and pepper as needed until you like how it tastes. There are other things you can add to it like hot sauce, marjoram, or other spices, but I like things like this to be simple.