Smooth mixed vegetable soup

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 6 people, you will need:

• 1 3 carrots
• 2 3 potatoes
• 3 3 turnips
• 4 ½ green cabbage
• 5 2 leeks
• 6 1 shallot
• 7 30 g butter
• 8 salt
• 9 pepper
• Total weight: 2,285 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 40 min.	30 min.	2 hours 3 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Peel and wash 3 carrots, 3 potatoes and 3 turnips. Cut all in small pieces, or fine slices. If you have a mandolin, it's very useful, and in that case make small sticks.
2	Prepare ½ green cabbage, raw.
3	Clean and mince 2 leeks.
4	Wash and mince finely 1 shallot.
5	In a big pan on medium fire, make melt 30 g butter and add shallot, salt and pepper. Make cook without coloration 1 or 2 minutes.
6	Add all vegetables and stir carefully, to well mix buttered shallot. Note that is the secret of tasty soups, this mix will give them more taste and flavor than a simple water+vegetables soup.
7	Add enough water to cover all, plus about 1 inch high. Salt again.
8	Make cook for about 25 minutes, covered, until vegetables are cooked and soft.
9	Blend all, and check seasoning.
10	Serve if possible with some parsley, pepper on the table, and for the most greedy people around the table, some crème fraiche and butter.

Remarks

If you don't have these particular vegetables, use whatever you have. Try at least to include a chopped shallot.
Don't hesitate to make a lot at once, as soup keeps well in the fridge or freezer.

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