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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.

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Last modified on: May 10^th 2015

Keywords for this recipe:Soup Fresh spinach Potatoes Smoked sausage

For 18 people, you will need:

1 600 g Morteau sausage
2 150 g onion
3 6 cloves garlic
4 1 kg 50 g potatoes
5 300 g fresh spinach
6 6 tablespoons olive oil
7 4 litres 500 ml Vegetable stock
8 750 ml liquid cream
9 salt
10 pepper
Total weight: 6,750 grams

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

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 7 min.

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

Cut 600 g Morteau sausage into small dice (if you do not have any, use another kind of sausage, but preferably smoked).

Chop 150 g onion.

Chop 6 cloves garlic finely.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

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Peel and rinse 1 kg 50 g potatoes and chop into fairly large dice.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

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Prepare 300 g fresh spinach, but leave raw - there is no need to blanch.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

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Pour 6 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 4 litres 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 750 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...).

Keeping

Several days.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
4,888 Kcal or 20,465 Kj	117 gr	329 gr	310 gr
244 %	45 %	31 %	47 %

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 18 people : 13.75 €
Per person : 0.76 €

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Note : These prices are only approximate.

Source

From Chungah of damndelicious.net.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Vegetable stock: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Light Broccoli Soup, Melt-in-the mouth meat and vegetables in a sealed casserole, Mexican-style pork medallions , Curried prawn risotto, Fisherman's Ragout, ... All
	Potatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Home-made potato crisps , Baked potoatoes with herb butter or cream , Potatoes with prawns, Chicken breasts with tarragon, Boulangère potatoes, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Raw beetroot mousse with walnuts, Panna cotta, Eggs "en cocotte" with spinach, Caramelized pear custard tart, Veal with mushrooms and green asparagus, ... All
	Morteau sausage: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cured Pork Belly With Lentils, Morteau sausage rolled brioche, Sausage buckwheat pancakes, Morteau sausage "crisps", Smoked eggs, ... All

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