Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach


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.
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Last modified on: May 10th 2015
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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 20 min.
Cooking: 35 min.
All in all: 50 min.
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Stage 1 - ⌛ 7 min.
Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach : Stage 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.
Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach : Stage 2
Peel and rinse 350 g potatoes and chop into fairly large dice.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 5 min.
Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach : Stage 3
Prepare 100 g fresh spinach, but leave raw - there is no need to blanch.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 5 min.
Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach : Stage 4
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.
Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach : Stage 5
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.
Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach : Stage 6
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.
Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach : Stage 7
Turn the heat down and leave to simmer until the potatoes are cooked.

Stage 8 - ⌛ 5 min.
Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach : Stage 8
Add 250 ml liquid cream and bring back to the boil.

Check the seasoning.

Stage 9 - ⌛ 3 min.
Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach : Stage 9
Add the spinach and stir for 2 or 3 minutes.

Stage 10
Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach : Stage 10
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...).
Keeping: Several days.
Source: From Chungah of damndelicious.net.
Nutritional information
Proteins (gr)Carbohydrates (gr)Fats (gr)Energy value (in k-calories)Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe170 RDI=70 %780 RDI=70 %540 RDI=80 %8,680 RDI=430 %36,340 RDI: 430 %
Per 100 g7 RDI=3 %30 RDI=3 %20 RDI=4 %390 RDI=20 %1,620 RDI: 20 %
Per person30 RDI=10 %130 RDI=10 %90 RDI=10 %1,450 RDI=70 %6,060 RDI: 70 %
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman
Possible allergens in this recipe: Celery, milk
How much will it cost?
  • For 6 people : 4.60 €
  • Per person : 0.80 €

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