Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, leek & celery soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Leek & Celery Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Leek & Celery Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook leek & celery soup using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Leek & Celery Soup:

1. Make ready 1 tbsp vegetable oil, preferably cold-pressed
2. Get 1 small onion (I used red onion coz had one spare), chopped
3. Get 1 leek, washed and thinly sliced
4. Take 3-4 sticks celery, chopped with leaves set aside for Step 6
5. Prepare 3 cloves garlic, chopped
6. Prepare 100 g new potatoes, diced
7. Prepare 1 1/2 litre vegetable stock (I used Marigold powder)
8. Make ready 2 bay leaves
9. Get Salt
10. Get Ground black pepper
11. Take 100 ml low-fat crème fraiche

Instructions to make Leek & Celery Soup:

1. Bring the oil to a medium-high heat in a stock pot or large saucepan and fry the onion for 2 minutes, stirring only to avoid sticking.
2. Add the leek and cook for a further 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Stir in the celery, garlic and potato and continue cooking for a further 5 minutes or until the leeks are soft but not browned, stirring occasionally.
4. Add the stock and stir gently but thoroughly. Add the bay leaves, bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 25 minutes or until the vegetables are nicely softened, stirring occasionally. Remove the bay leaves.
5. Move the pan off the heat, season to taste, whizz to the desired consistency (or, as I chose to do, leave it unwhizzed) and then stir in the crème fraîche.
6. Return to the heat and quickly bring the soup to piping hot but not boiling point and serve into warmed soup bowls. Garnish with the set-aside celery leaves.
7. Serve with granary bread or crusty rolls - if you’re allowing yourself the carbs!

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