This one should be really easy to figure out.
Maaaaate I made potato & leek soup just yesterday! I peel my taters and sautee my leeks though. Trying to figure out the best variety of taters for the soup, but potatoes in Australia suck.
It’s obviously Potato Leek soup, but my good gosh, you gotta sauteed those Leeks in oil or butter first, friend. Straight boiling like this (especially since you used the dark green bits) leaves a bitter and acrid flavor as all Alliums will if not sauteed first. They’ll also give you gas 😔
Allium your bullshit outta here. My wife does all the greens and no sautee. We don’t want to hear about your weak as digestive issues. This comment is bullshit
Wow. So many angry people in a cooking sub. Geez.
I have made this for decades. Never once did it ever have a hint of bitter or acrid. Are you adding cream? Are you using homemade salt free stock?
You may want to try it by sauteing first to see the difference. It’s about chemistry, and there’s a reason why every culinary school will instruct students to sautee first when it comes to Alliums.
Here’s a decent read on it: https://www.seriouseats.com/ask-the-food-lab-do-i-need-to-saute-vegetables-when-starting-a-stew
If you want a super deep-dive: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9781845691837500111
But really if you like the way you’re doing it, keep on keeping on. Not trying to change your mind, just saying there’s a reason people do things a certain way when cooking 😉
I want you to know up front that you came to my post to open your mouth. I didn’t come to yours.
Your first link is very specific that if a recipe calls for sauteing then you shouldn’t skip that step. Your first link is not specific to creamed soups and is a general guideline. This recipe doesn’t call for it. It didn’t call for it the first time I made it 20 years ago and nothing has changed since.
Are there versions that do call for it? Yes. And people are welcome to make them.
The first link mentions long cooking but isn’t explicit about how long of long. This recipe is about 20 minutes. Not normally considered “long.”
I have taste buds and a working nose and would notice any latent bitterness or acridness. In fact just this week I posted about how to solve the problem of acrid and astringent flavors in wild blackberries. My wife can’t even taste it in them. But I can.
I have fed this to a lot of people including professional chefs. Never once has anyone ever mentioned any off flavors. When I say it’s not an issue here it’s because it’s not an issue here.
Your second link is useless. It contains a publisher summary of a whole paper instead of the actionable text from pages 200-226. I looked but couldn’t bring a copy online. Google books has it but only the first ~80 pages are available.
I do appreciate helpful advice and tips. But I don’t appreciate people telling me there is a problem when there isn’t a problem. Most people are like that.
This link hurts me as much as it might hurt you. But here is a version from international fraud Robert Irvine that doesn’t saute. Here is different one. And another
As you can see there are versions out there that don’t saute.
Woweeee.
Really not trying to start something, but since you opened the door…
That recipe specifically mentions only using the white portion of Leeks, which you did not do. You don’t use the green parts for the very specific reasons I mentioned and linked to. There is a better version of this soup, and I was just trying to help you out, friend.
Here you come with some agro response like I was intending to offend your culinary skills, when I actually said just keep making it the way you like it.
Get some help.
Yeah, a bit of an over reaction. I reread your original comment about sauteing and it was not phrased at all as criticism, but as a suggestion. Don’t know what provoked that wall of defensiveness.
It was the “I know what’s good for you. You should listen to what experts do. I know that that tastes like ass despite never eating it.” mentality of the reply combined with a link that was useless.
Those words were never sent. Don’t know what you mean. Literally only said there is a reason people do things a certain way, which is just a reference to the historic knowledge of certain processes. I even said to just keep doing it your way.
Calm down.
Potato leek soup with hour old bread. The extra color is Scotch bonnet curry pepper sauce.
When cooking this the leaks and potatoes are done at the same time. I’m cooking in turkey stock and I don’t want to waste it so the bare minimum is used. Once the heat is applied the leeks collapse and there is enough liquid to cook the potatoes.
You can see after the leeks loosen up. Note that there is no risk of boilover because the leeks stop the foam.
Bread. Tasty bread. Leeks were free. Potatoes on sale. Stock was free from a free turkey. Flour for bread was free. Total cost per person: like $0.80 How much of you paid for everything: $2.60 Can you order this anywhere? Probably.
I like leaks and potota with golden mountain seasoning, whole milk or cream.
Nutmeg, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, pepper sauce. I almost always go with heavy cream.
Sadness soup.
That’s a lie. You might need to add enough nutmeg and spice.
Kind sir, I have indeed misspoke. I meant it as a cure, as it’s an amazing comfort food. Never tried it with nutmeg though, that goes on the list for next time.
Baked rigatoni
Rigas? In this economy?
Leek and potato soup, or cream thereof?
Cream. Definitely cream.
Apple soup
Don’t be silly. Apples aren’t in season.
Like a stopped clock…
Apples are always in season somewhere in the world
