Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, creamy garlic-leek soup with crispy croutons….. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have creamy garlic-leek soup with crispy croutons…. using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy garlic-leek soup with crispy croutons….:

1. Get 2 medium potatoes
2. Take 1 onion
3. Take 1 large leek
4. Take 2 whole small heads of garlic
5. Make ready 7 cups chicken stock or water
6. Make ready 1/2 cup cream
7. Prepare 3-4 tbsp oil
8. Take 1 cup chopped parsley or coriander leaf
9. Prepare 6 slices bread for croutons
10. Prepare Salt to taste
11. Make ready Black pepper to taste

You'll end up with a lightly creamy soup with potato chunks. Add in the heavy cream and stir until well mixed. Season with salt and pepper to taste and garnish with garlic croutons and serve. Add the garlic, leek, celery and thyme sprigs and fry for another minute; then add the chopped celeriac.

Steps to make Creamy garlic-leek soup with crispy croutons….:

1. Peel and chop onions medium finely. Set aside. Peel the garlic cloves,set aside. Wash and chop the leek, set aside.
2. In a heavy pot or saucepan over medium heat, add olive oil. Add the chopped onion,leek, leave to sweat,do not brown. Add the garlic and turn heat to low. Cook gently for about 15 minutes
3. While that’s cooking,peel and dice the potatoes then add to the pot along with all the chicken stock or water. Season with salt and pepper, simmer gently for 25 to 30 minutes.
4. Add the cream, mix well then blitz in a blender or use a stick blender directly in the pot. Taste for seasoning.
5. For the croutons, simply dice up some of the bread and fry in olive oil on low heat until brown and crispy, the slower you cook them, the crispy they will remain in the soup.
6. Serve with croutons and chopped parsley.

Season with salt and pepper to taste and garnish with garlic croutons and serve. Add the garlic, leek, celery and thyme sprigs and fry for another minute; then add the chopped celeriac. You can relax as the slow cooking of the garlic will dissipate the pungent flavor and leave a pleasing smooth note. This soup really has to be served with croutons or a slice of bruschetta, plus some coarsely chopped parsley for that freshness. A simple soup with amazing flavor and fantastic if you have a cold!

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