German Potato Soup (from Canadian cookbook)

[MelissaS]

German Potato Soup
This is a thick and hearty potato soup flavored with rich chicken broth (preferably homemade) and just a bit of celery root. Garnish with fresh crumbled bacon and croutons. Follow with bratwurst and an apple strudel for a complete, authentic German meal.

Number of People: 6
Prep Time: 10 min.
Cook Time: 40 min.

Ingredients:
2 large (about 480g) baking potatoes, peeled and cut into 2.5 cm pieces
•   1 leek, white section cut into 2.5 cm pieces
•   2 sprigs parsley
•   60g celery root, peeled and cut into small cubes (celeriac)
•   1 tsp. salt
•   pepper, to taste
•   600g chicken broth
•   1 cube chicken bouillon
•   200g half & half - half milk or half cream or use evaporated milk
•   2 sprigs parsley
•   fresh chives, to taste
Garnish
•   crumbled bacon and croutons



Preparation:
Place vegetables, salt, pepper, broth, and bouillon cube into the Bowl. Cook for 15 minutes at 100°C on speed 1, reducing heat to 90°C, if steam appears from the top. Add half & half to the Bowl. Cook for 25 minutes at 90°C on speed 1. Add parsley and chives. Mix for 10 seconds, gradually increasing to speed 6. Pour into serving dish and garnish. Serve hot.
Note: The soup may also be flavored with marjoram or nutmeg.

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Members' comments
sianon - This soup is delicious.  As I am the only one in this household who eats soup, there are three portions now frozen for lunches for work. 

brazen20au - mmm very good! I used half my celeriac which ended up being 200g, oops! nice anyway. I used thermomix rice milk instead of half an half so it was dairy free.

[sianon]

This sounds like a delicious soup, one question though.  Is celery root what we call celeriac here in Aus ?  Also what is half and half

Karen

[brazen20au]

half and half is half cream and half milk. you could probably replace with either, or evap milk etc

[Thermomixer]

Too fast - while away from the computer for a couple of minutes.

Yes, celery root = celeriac - in season now (in Australia)

BTW - yes it does sound good - thanks again Melissa

[sianon]

Looks like this may be on the menu for lunch

[Thermomixer]

If you do buy thr celeriac, then you can make a celeriac puree with what you don't use for the soup.

You could probably, quite easily, substitute celery if you don't wish to buy a 500g celeriac for 60g, but I would use it as a puree, mashed with potatoes, as celeriac remoulade, baked....

[judydawn]

Do you mean cook the celeriac with the potatoes Thermomixer and then mash it all together?

[Thermomixer]

You can do as a puree by itself or, yes, cook cubes with potatoes and mash together - make the potato chunks a bit bigger than the celeriac as the celeriac cooks faster.

[sianon]

I made this soup for dinner last night and it was delicious.  As I am the only one in this household who eats soup, there are three portions now frozen for lunches for work.  Three days where I won't be tempted to go to the cafe next door and spend $10 or so on my lunch.  Now just need to whip up some home made bread rolls to go with the soup.

Karen

[Ceejay]

Sounds like a brilliant plan Karen!

I do the same at home with the younger boys.. they are soup lovers thankfully!! 

[brazen20au]

i found some celaeriac today so will be making this soup this week

[brazen20au]

mmm very good!

i used half my celeriac which ended up being 200g, oops! nice anyway

very very very very hot though, even now, 10 mins after i ifinished making it

[brazen20au]

oh the other thing worth noting is that it was only enough for one serve each for us with 3 small children and 2 adults (though the kids loved it and 2 wanted seconds)

i think though if you were organised you could make one batch, put in thermoserver to keep hot, serve when a second batch is mostly cooked so you have more to go around

great budget recipe too!

oh and i used thermomix rice milk instead of half an half so it was dairy free