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.
79 K 4.7/5 (38 reviews)
50 min.
Easy
2 people
10 IngredientsLast modified on: May 10th 2015
For 2 people, you will need:
- 1
70 g Morteau sausage - 2
20 g onion - 3
1 garlic clove - 4
120 g potatoes - 5
35 g fresh spinach - 6
1 tablespoon olive oil - 7
500 g vegetable stock - 8
85 g liquid cream - 9
salt - 10
pepper - Total weight: 850 grams
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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 20 min.
Cooking: 35 min.
All in all: 50 min.
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 7 min.
Cut 70 g Morteau sausage into small dice (if you do not have any, use another kind of sausage, but preferably smoked).
Chop 20 g onion.
Chop 1 garlic clove finely.
Chop 20 g onion.
Chop 1 garlic clove finely.
Stage 2 - 5 min.
Peel and rinse 120 g potatoes and chop into fairly large dice.
Stage 3 - 5 min.
Prepare 35 g fresh spinach, but leave raw - there is no need to blanch.
Stage 4 - 5 min.
Pour 1 tablespoon olive oil into a large saucepan on medium heat.
When hot, tip in the diced sausage and fry briefly.
When hot, tip in the diced sausage and fry briefly.
Stage 5 - 2 min.
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.
Add 500 g vegetable stock. If you do not have any, add the same volume of water plus a stock cube, and potatoes.
Bring to the boil.
Bring to the boil.
Stage 7 - 10 min.
Turn the heat down and leave to simmer until the potatoes are cooked.
Stage 8 - 5 min.
Stage 9 - 3 min.
Add the spinach and stir for 2 or 3 minutes.
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 recipe | 60 RDI=20 % | 270 RDI=30 % | 210 RDI=30 % | 3,160 RDI=160 % | 13,240 RDI: 160 % |
| Per 100 g | 7 RDI=3 % | 30 RDI=3 % | 20 RDI=4 % | 370 RDI=20 % | 1,560 RDI: 20 % |
| Per person | 30 RDI=10 % | 130 RDI=10 % | 100 RDI=20 % | 1,580 RDI=80 % | 6,620 RDI: 80 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 2 people : 1.95 €
- Per person : 1.00 €
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Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
Vegetable stock
You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Mexican-style pork medallions , Light Broccoli Soup, Mixed vegetable curry, Pea risotto "Mantecare", Curried prawn risotto, ... See them all 19
Potatoes
Like these other recipes: Real home-made chips* , Truffade original, Potato gratin with 3 cheeses, Hotpot my grandmother's way , Potato and broccoli gratin, ... See them all 83
Liquid cream
Like these other recipes: Moist chocolate cake, Gratin of leeks with Morbier cheese, Crème de foie gras, Flamiche, Pumpkin (or potimarron) soup, ... See them all 170
Morteau sausage
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