Creamy spinach soup
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 leek, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 4 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
- 750ml chicken stock
- 750ml water
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 bunch silverbeet, green parts only
- 1/2 cup cream
Method
Heat olive oil in a large, non-stick pot.
Cook onion, leek and garlic until soft.
Add potato and cook without colouring for 10 minutes.
Add stock and water and a teaspoon of salt.
Bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
Add silverbeet, simmer 5-10 minutes until soft.
Add cream and blend until smooth.
Notes
- I added 1/2 tsp of chilli powder to the soup to give it a bit of kick, but skip if your kids don’t like spicy food.
- Serve with a cob of fresh bread and butter.
- This recipe was created by Alana House at Housegoeshome for Kidspot.
- Wondering where the spinach is? Well, Alana reinvented a spinach soup recipe using what she had in the fridge and pantry, hence the silverbeet.
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Hi, not sure if you are aware but this is called a Spinach soup but the ingredient is actually Silverbeet…?
Hi – well spotted! Turns out that the cook, Alana House, was actually repurposing and old recipe for spinach soup and just used what she had available – so there’s silverbeet but no spinach.