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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.
79 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
1 cup Morteau sausage - 2
¼ cup onion - 3
2 cloves garlic - 4
1 ½ cup potatoes - 5
½ cup fresh spinach - 6
2 tablespoons olive oil - 7
6 1⁄3 cups vegetable stock - 8
1 cup liquid cream - 9
salt - 10
pepper
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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 1 cup Morteau sausage into small dice (if you do not have any, use another kind of sausage, but preferably smoked).
Chop ¼ cup onion.
Chop 2 cloves garlic finely.
Chop ¼ cup onion.
Chop 2 cloves garlic finely.
Stage 2 - 5 min.
Peel and rinse 1 ½ cup potatoes and chop into fairly large dice.
Stage 3 - 5 min.
Prepare ½ cup 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 6 1⁄3 cups 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 | 180 RDI=70 % | 790 RDI=80 % | 610 RDI=90 % | 9,420 RDI=470 % | 39,460 RDI: 470 % |
| Per 100 g | 7 RDI=3 % | 30 RDI=3 % | 20 RDI=4 % | 380 RDI=20 % | 1,580 RDI: 20 % |
| Per person | 30 RDI=10 % | 130 RDI=10 % | 100 RDI=20 % | 1,570 RDI=80 % | 6,580 RDI: 80 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 6 people : 5.60 €
- Per person : 0.95 €
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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: Sausages with baked beans, French style, Pea risotto "Mantecare", Pork Chops Champvallon style, Asparagus "en petit pois", Chinese Soup, ... See them all 19
Potatoes
Like these other recipes: Grated potato cakes, Truffade original, Baked potoatoes with herb butter or cream , Taos hotpot, Normandy seafood stew, ... See them all 83
Liquid cream
Like these other recipes: Ham pasta bake, Tagliatelle New Zealand style, Household cake (Gâteau de ménage), Crusty cockle tart, Layered Leek and Egg Gratin , ... See them all 170
Morteau sausage
Like these other recipes: Morteau sausage rolled brioche, Franche-Comté sticks, Sausage buckwheat pancakes, Morteau sausage , Cassoulet, ... See them all 17
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