{"id":185,"date":"2023-05-06T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T12:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2023-05-06T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:07:26","slug":"leek-and-potato-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/leek-and-potato-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Leek and Potato Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My take on a classic recipe, this is a Leek and Potato Soup, uses lentils and Cr\u00e8me Fraiche for added creaminess, this serves 9 people, (I count a serving as 3 ladles full) using the ingredients I used, your looking at around 306 calories a serving  but only 8.1g fat \ud83d\ude00 Very healthy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ingredients <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1kg Potatoes, peeled and diced<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 Onions, Chopped<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 Cloves of Garlic Sliced <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1kg Leeks, sliced<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1.5L Vegetable stock made with stock cubes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>100ml Cr\u00e8me Fraiche <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1-2 Bay Leaves<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>250g Lentils<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2tbsp Rapeseed Oil<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ground Pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Method<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Heat Oil in a large saucepan and gently fry the onions and garlic until soft, Around 5 Minutes. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add the diced potatoes to the pan and stir well. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add the diced leeks and Lentils then stir and cook for a further 5 minutes or until the leeks have softened. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add the vegetable stock and bay leaves then stir. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Simmer for around 15-20 minutes or until the potatoes are soft and the lentils are tender. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remove from the heat, remove the bay leaves and blend using a hand blender or food processor. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add the cr\u00e8me fraiche and stir, season to taste with pepper and enjoy. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My take on a classic recipe, this is a Leek and Potato Soup, uses lentils and Cr\u00e8me Fraiche for added creaminess, this serves 9 people, (I count a serving as 3 ladles full) using the ingredients I used, your looking at around 306 calories a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healtheat","category-lunch","category-soup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchenofyum.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}