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.
75 K 4.7/5 (38 reviews)
50 min.
Easy
6 people
10 IngredientsLast modified on: May 10th 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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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 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.
Chop 50 g onion.
Chop 2 cloves garlic finely.
Stage 2 - 5 min.
Peel and rinse 350 g potatoes and chop into fairly large dice.
Stage 3 - 5 min.
Prepare 100 g fresh spinach, but leave raw - there is no need to blanch.
Stage 4 - 5 min.
Pour 2 tablespoons 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 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.
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 | 170 RDI=70 % | 780 RDI=70 % | 540 RDI=80 % | 8,680 RDI=430 % | 36,340 RDI: 430 % |
| Per 100 g | 7 RDI=3 % | 30 RDI=3 % | 20 RDI=4 % | 390 RDI=20 % | 1,620 RDI: 20 % |
| Per person | 30 RDI=10 % | 130 RDI=10 % | 90 RDI=10 % | 1,450 RDI=70 % | 6,060 RDI: 70 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 6 people : 4.60 €
- Per person : 0.80 €
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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: Foie gras Chantilly , Asparagus "en petit pois", Curried prawn risotto, Sausages with baked beans, French style, Fisherman's Ragout, ... See them all 19
Potatoes
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Liquid cream
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Morteau sausage
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