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Title: Sage, Potato & Leek Soup - For Foods Sake
Post by: JulieO on March 02, 2012, 05:09:29 am

Made this quick soup for lunch today. 

I found the potatoes needed extra cooking time, firstly 5 mins/100C, then another 5 mins on V Temp, and by then they were lovely and tender.  It blitzed into a lovely smooth soup.

Doing a taste test I thought it needed something extra, maybe I should have added more sage leaves than I did?

Anyway I added a pinch of olive salt but still needed something more, so I quickly dry fried 4 slices of prosciutto until crispy and broke up into the soup. 
Made all the difference and my DH especially enjoyed it. (he loves soup).

I think I would like to add carrots next time for a bit more flavour, I'm sure the recipe can be played around with.  :)

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Title: Re: Sage, Potato & Leek Soup - For Foods Sake
Post by: cookie1 on March 02, 2012, 05:19:52 am

A friend made this the other day and loved it. I think I'll try it over the weekend. It's going to be hot though.

Title: Re: Sage, Potato & Leek Soup - For Foods Sake
Post by: judydawn on March 02, 2012, 07:25:37 am

I might add a big spoonful of caramelised garlic paste or umami to it then Julie if that's the case.

Title: Re: Sage, Potato & Leek Soup - For Foods Sake
Post by: JulieO on March 02, 2012, 07:57:34 am

Good idea Judy.  It def needs something else to perk it up.  :)  The garlic paste is on the agenda in the coming days.  ;D

Title: Re: Sage, Potato & Leek Soup - For Foods Sake
Post by: judydawn on April 11, 2012, 01:39:00 am

Whipped this up this morning as per the recipe, had to cook it an extra 5 minutes (potatoes were about 3cm cubes), tasted it and yes it was quite nice.  I still thought I'd add a couple of teaspoons of garlic paste though and it just lifted it that little bit extra.  Nice one Tenina - I haven't made potato & leek soup much lately as my favourite is with a cup of cream added at the end.  Trying to avoid extra calories at the moment. I didn't use too many sage leaves, just 12 small ones from my garden.

Title: Re: Sage, Potato & Leek Soup - For Foods Sake
Post by: CreamPuff63 on May 21, 2012, 04:17:56 am

Made this last night and as per suggestions here, put in 4 heaped teaspoons of Chicken stock powder, and a generous teaspoon of Garlic Paste and a decent amount of white pepper to season (figuring there was plenty of salt already in the stock powder etc). The packet of sage that I bought was 10g as I didn't have enough in the garden as the parsely bush overshadows and has surrounded the poor sage plant. Rave reviews, and will make it again.