Irish Winter Soup

 
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Hey guys!

I wanted to make a wintry soup which is basically a spin on a Colcannon traditional potato soup, it’s normally got cream in but I came up with an alternative that’s super delicious.

Ingredients

  • 2 large white onions (diced)

  • 2tbs sunflower butter

  • 1tbs apple cider vinegar

  • 2 leaks chopped

  • 4 white potatoes (peeled and diced)

  • 1tbs chives

  • 1tbs black pepper

  • 1tbs salt

  • 1tbs mustard seeds

  • 2cup vegetable stock

So this is super easy, you throw in the leaks, the onions and the chopped potatoes (which are not par boiled) into a pan with the vinegar, mustard seeds, salt and pepper, using the butter to cook through. This takes about 25 minutes to really soften down and it should be relatively straight forward. There’s no reducing down, but you add the chives in at the very last minute.

Once you have noticed that the potatoes are able to be broken with your spoon, add to a blender. Now you can do this insane trick with potatoes where you blend them at the right moment and the starch molecules explode and it looks like mozzarella cheese, which you can use in cheese alternatives that drip, but in this case I slowly mashed things together first and then blended and it just became a delicious soup. I then added the stock which I had mixed up from a previous dish, you can use ready bought if you want!

Then return to the hob to cook out with the stock for another 15 minutes and it will be delicious and ready to go. Serve with some warm rolls and enjoy in the cold months.

 
Joseph Harwoodwinter