Potato, Leek, and Roasted Garlic Soup

"One night I was watching Emeril and he made a garlic soup. I made the garlic soup and enjoyed it, but decided I'd rather have something else in it rather than having to put bread in the soup to make it feel like it had substance. So I took what I knew of the garlic soup and I took what I knew of leek soup and a smashed them together."
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
9
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Cut top off of head of garlic and place in foil. cover with olive oil and salt and pepper. Wrap garlic and roast at 400°F until very lightly golden. set aside to cool.
  • Chop cloves of garlic and slice white and light green parts of leeks. heat a table spoon or two of olive oil in a stock pot and add chopped garlic and sliced leeks. Sauté until soft. Cut potatoes into small wedges and add to the pot. sauté for just a few seconds and salt and pepper. Cover with water. Add half of the qt of chicken stock. from here, you add water and stock to taste.
  • Squeeze roasted garlic out of the head/clove pods and into the stock pot with the soup. Smash any large pieces. Bring soup to a boil.
  • Turn heat down to simmer until potatoes are soft. Salt, and pepper to taste. Add any other herbs or spices at this time (thyme is always lovely with chicken stock).

Questions & Replies

  1. Approximately how long do you roast the garlic, and our the chopped cloves of garlic additional?
     
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Reviews

  1. This soup is amazing. Every ingredient really shines, and they all meld together into something that's so much greater than the sum of its parts. I followed the directions exactly, except that I pureed about half the soup to get a creamier texture, and finished it with a little rosemary and creme fraiche I had around. We loved it.
     
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