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Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach

This is a delicious recipe for an end-of-winter soup. It combines fresh spinach with diced potato and smoked sausage.

36,1054.7/5 for 37 ratings

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Last modified on: May 10^th 2015

For 6 people, you will need:

1 200 g Morteau sausage
2 50 g onion
3 2 cloves garlic
4 350 g potatoes
5 100 g fresh spinach
6 2 tablespoons olive oil
7 1 litre 500 ml Vegetable stock
8 250 ml liquid cream
9 salt
10 pepper
Total weight: 2,250 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
17 min.	32 min.	49 min.

Keeping: Several days.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 7 min.

Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach : Photo of step #1

Cut 200 g Morteau sausage into small dice (if you do not have any, use another kind of sausage, but preferably smoked).

Chop 50 g onion.

Chop 2 cloves garlic finely.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

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Peel and rinse 350 g potatoes and chop into fairly large dice.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

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Prepare 100 g fresh spinach, but leave raw - there is no need to blanch.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

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Pour 2 tablespoons olive oil into a large saucepan on medium heat.

When hot, tip in the diced sausage and fry briefly.

Stage 5 - 2 min.

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Add the onion and garlic, salt and pepper, then stir to mix well. Cook without colouring for 1 or 2 minutes.

Stage 6 - 7 min.

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Add 1 litre 500 ml Vegetable stock. If you do not have any, add the same volume of water plus a stock cube, and potatoes.

Bring to the boil.

Stage 7 - 10 min.

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Turn the heat down and leave to simmer until the potatoes are cooked.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

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Add 250 ml liquid cream and bring back to the boil.

Check the seasoning.

Stage 9 - 3 min.

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Add the spinach and stir for 2 or 3 minutes.

Stage 10

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Your soup is ready.

Remarks

This is a very flexible recipe, so do adapt the proportions to suit yourself (a bit more of this, a bit less of that...).

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,629 Kcal or 6,820 Kj	39 gr	110 gr	103 gr
81 %	15 %	10 %	16 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
72 Kcal or 301 Kj	2 gr	5 gr	5 gr
4 %	1 %	<1 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
272 Kcal or 1,139 Kj	6 gr	18 gr	17 gr
14 %	2 %	2 %	3 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 6 people : 4.11 £
Per person : 0.69 £

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

From Chungah of damndelicious.net.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Vegetable stock: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pork medallions with "full" turnips, Endive and beer soup, Stuffed cabbage leaves, Melt-in-the mouth meat and vegetables in a sealed casserole, Sautéed Green Vegetables, ... All
	Potatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Fillets of sole Dieppoise, Boeuf (beef) bourguignon, Pork roast with herbs, Green bean purée, Normandy seafood stew, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Creamy spinach and potato gratin, Cream of cauliflower soup with smoked haddock , Firied fillet of sea bream with polenta, Fish petals, vegetables julienne, and beurre blanc, Sea bass with coriander cream en papillote, ... All
	Morteau sausage: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sausage and lentils "en cocotte", Comtoise endive salad, Cassoulet, Morteau sausage "crisps", Sausage buckwheat pancakes, ... All

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