Easiest Way to Make Super Quick Homemade Leek & Celery Soup

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, leek & celery soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Leek & Celery Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Leek & Celery Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have leek & celery soup using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Leek & Celery Soup:

1. Make ready 1 tbsp vegetable oil, preferably cold-pressed
2. Take 1 small onion (I used red onion coz had one spare), chopped
3. Prepare 1 leek, washed and thinly sliced
4. Make ready 3-4 sticks celery, chopped with leaves set aside for Step 6
5. Take 3 cloves garlic, chopped
6. Prepare 100 g new potatoes, diced
7. Prepare 1 1/2 litre vegetable stock (I used Marigold powder)
8. Make ready 2 bay leaves
9. Get Salt
10. Get Ground black pepper
11. Make ready 100 ml low-fat crème fraiche

Instructions to make Leek & Celery Soup:

1. Bring the oil to a medium-high heat in a stock pot or large saucepan and fry the onion for 2 minutes, stirring only to avoid sticking.
2. Add the leek and cook for a further 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Stir in the celery, garlic and potato and continue cooking for a further 5 minutes or until the leeks are soft but not browned, stirring occasionally.
4. Add the stock and stir gently but thoroughly. Add the bay leaves, bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 25 minutes or until the vegetables are nicely softened, stirring occasionally. Remove the bay leaves.
5. Move the pan off the heat, season to taste, whizz to the desired consistency (or, as I chose to do, leave it unwhizzed) and then stir in the crème fraîche.
6. Return to the heat and quickly bring the soup to piping hot but not boiling point and serve into warmed soup bowls. Garnish with the set-aside celery leaves.
7. Serve with granary bread or crusty rolls - if you’re allowing yourself the carbs!

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