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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.

36,1064.7/5 for 37 ratings

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Last modified on: May 10^th 2015

For 6 people, you will need:

1 7.0 oz Morteau sausage
2 1.8 oz onion
3 2 cloves garlic
4 12.3 oz potatoes
5 3.5 oz fresh spinach
6 2 tablespoons olive oil
7 3 lb + 4.8 oz Vegetable stock
8 8.8 oz liquid cream
9 salt
10 pepper

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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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Stage 1 - 7 min.

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

Cut 7.0 oz Morteau sausage into small dice (if you do not have any, use another kind of sausage, but preferably smoked).

Chop 1.8 oz onion.

Chop 2 cloves garlic finely.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

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Peel and rinse 12.3 oz potatoes and chop into fairly large dice.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

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Prepare 3.5 oz 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 3 lb + 4.8 oz 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 8.8 oz 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
2,374 Kcal or 9,939 Kj	46 gr	120 gr	178 gr
119 %	18 %	11 %	27 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
95 Kcal or 398 Kj	2 gr	5 gr	7 gr
5 %	1 %	<1 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
396 Kcal or 1,658 Kj	8 gr	20 gr	30 gr
20 %	3 %	2 %	5 %

% 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 : 5.58 €
Per person : 0.93 €

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Source

From Chungah of damndelicious.net.

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	Vegetable stock: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chinese Soup, Endive and beer soup, Mixed vegetable curry, Provençal braised carrots, Sausages with baked beans, French style, ... All
	Potatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sarladaise potatoes, Sorrel soup, Smooth mixed vegetable soup, Vegetable pie, Avengers' potatoes, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cream of cauliflower soup with smoked haddock , Pan-fried scallops and chanterelles with Noilly Prat sauce, Fish petals, vegetables julienne, and beurre blanc, Tagliatelle and courgette spaghetti, carbonara style, Quiche Bretonne, ... All
	Morteau sausage: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sausage and lentils "en cocotte", Morteau sausage, Franche-Comté sticks, Sausage buckwheat pancakes, Morteau sausage "crisps", ... All

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