Roasted Potato Leek Soup Ina Garten Back To Basics Recipes

Steps:

• Heat the butter in a large wide pot over medium heat. Add the garlic, leeks and onion and cook, covered, stirring occasionally, until soft and not browned, about 12 minutes. Raise the heat to medium-high, pour in the wine and continue to cook, uncovered, until almost dry, about 4 minutes.
• Add the potatoes, bay leaf, thyme, 7 cups water, 1 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to maintain a simmer and cook, covered, until the potatoes are very tender, about 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and cool slightly.
• Remove and discard the thyme and bay leaf. Working in batches, transfer the mixture to a blender and carefully puree until smooth, taking care not to fill the carafe more than half full per batch, or puree with an immersion blender in the pot. Reheat the soup over medium heat until steaming.
• Whisk in the cream and lemon juice. Adjust the seasoning with additional salt and pepper. Ladle the soup into bowls. Garnish with fresh thyme leaves, a drizzle of oil and a frizzled leeks or shallot if using.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Combine the potatoes and leeks on a sheet pan in a single layer. Add the olive oil, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper and toss to coat the vegetables evenly. Roast for 40-45 minutes, turning them with a spatula a few times during cooking, until very tender. Add the arugula and toss to combine. Roast for 4-5 more minutes, until the arugula is wilted. Remove the pan from the oven and place over two burners. Stir in the wine and 1 cup of the chicken stock and cook over low heat, scraping up any crispy roasted bits sticking to the pan.
• In batches, transfer the roasted vegetables to a food processor fitted with the steel blade, adding the pan liquid and about 5 cups of the chicken stock to make a puree. Pour the puree into a large pot or Dutch oven. Continue to puree the vegetables in batches until they're all done and combined in the large pot. Add enough of the remaining 1 to 2 cups of stock to make a thick soup. Add the cream, cream fraiche, 2 teaspoons salt and 1 teaspoon pepper and check the seasonings.
• When ready to serve, reheat the soup gently and whisk in 2 tablespoons white wine and the Parmesan cheese. Serve hot with an extra grating of Parmesan cheese and Crispy Shallots, if using.

Steps:

• Trim leeks, split lengthwise, rinse to remove sand, and thinly slice.
• Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium heat and sauté leeks for about 4 minutes
• Add the potatoes and the broth and bring to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes.
• Reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are tender.
• Season to taste with cayenne, nutmeg, salt, and white pepper.
• Strain out the vegetables and puree in blender, a little at a time, adding broth if needed. Stir puree into broth.
• Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a saucepan over low heat and stir in the flour.
• Add 1 1/2 cups of the soup, a little at a time, and blend well. Cook, stirring, until the mixture thickens.
• Blend flour mixture into soup and stir until soup comes to a boil.
• Serve right away.

Steps:

• Scrub the potatoes and cut them into 1 inch chunks.
• Place them in a soup pot or Dutch oven with the leeks, celery, carrot, water and salt.
• Bring to a boil, cover, and cook until the potatoes are tender (about 20 minutes).
• Remove from heat, and let it cool until it's no longer too hot to puree.
• Puree the soup in a blender or food processor in batches.
• Return the puree to the pot.
• Stir in the milk.
• Add black pepper to taste and adjust salt if necessary.
• Serve hot or cold, possibly topped with a sprinkling of fresh hebs.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Clean, peel (if desired), and cut potatoes into 1" pieces. Place in large bowl.
• Clean leeks. Cut lengthwise, then into 1/4" slices. Add to potatoes.
• Mince or press garlic over potatoes and leeks.
• Drizzle with olive oil and put the whole mess in a rimmed cookie sheet.
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper and roast for 40 minutes, turning once after 20 minutes.
• After 40 minutes, pull vegetables and pour wine over. Place spinach on vegetables and carefully put back into the oven for 5 minutes, just to wilt the spinach (or other green).
• When spinach has wilted, pull cookie sheet from oven and gently scrape vegetables from cookie sheet.
• In batches, scoop vegetables into food processor with 1 cup of broth and pulse to desired consistency (or if chunky is your thing, simply use a potato masher, adding broth is needed).
• Add salt, pepper, and cream as desired.