Make-ahead Christmas recipe for 8 people, takes only 25 mins; recipe has butter, leek, bay leaf, potato, vegetable stock, double cream, smoked salmon and chive.
Creamy smoked salmon, leek & potato soup
Course: Make-ahead Christmas
Servings
8
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Vegetable Stock: 1l chicken or vegetable stock
- Butter: large knob of butter
- Bay Leaf: 1 bay leaf
- Chive: small bunch chives, snipped
- Smoked Salmon: 200g smoked salmon, cut into strips
- Potato: 1kg floury potatoes, diced
- Leek: 2 large leeks, halved and finely sliced
- Double Cream: 100ml double cream
Directions
- Heat the butter in a large saucepan and add the leeks and bay leaf. Cook over a low heat for 8-10 mins or until the leek is really soft, then stir through the potatoes until coated in the butter. Pour over the stock and cream and bring to the simmer, then gently bubble for 10-15 mins until the potatoes are really tender.If freezing at this stage, slightly under-cook the potatoes, then defrost and bring back to a simmer to finish cooking them and continue the recipe.
- Add two-thirds of the smoked salmon, stir through and season. Serve the soup in deep bowls with the remaining smoked salmon and snipped chives on the top.
