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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- From: r.gagnaux@chnet.ch (Rene Gagnaux)
- Subject: COLLECTION: Potato Soups
- Message-ID: <59LFuWDBC1@chnet.ch>
- Followup-To: poster
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 12:00:00 +0200
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- Pr> I'm looking for a potato soup recipe, preferably lower-fat
- Pr> than traditional recipes, but any recipe will do. Thanks.
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- Title: Potato, olive and anchovy soup
- Categories: Soups
- Servings: 6
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- 2 x Onions, peeled and chopped 1 3/4 l Water (3 pints)
- 3 tb Extra virgin olive oil 110 g Black olives (4 oz), stoned
- 900 g Red-skinned potatoes (2 lb) 12 x Anchovy fillets
- - scrubbed
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- Soften the onions in 2 tb of olive oil in a heavy, covered pan.
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- Cut up the potatoes into quarters and boil them in 1.75 l of water until
- they are just soft. Drain them, reserving the potato water, and cut them
- up into smallish pieces.
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- Add another tb of oil to the onions, then add the potatoes. Stir, adding
- as you do so the olives and the anchovy fillets, and allow the flavours to
- become well mingled. Add the potato water, bring to the boil and simmer
- for 5 ... 10 minutes before liquidizing.
-
- (From: Brigid Allen, The soup book, M Papermac, ISBN 0 333 58224 1)
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- Title: Potato soup with roast garlic
- Categories: Soups
- Servings: 6
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- 700 g Potatoes (1 1/2 lb) 2 x Carrots
- 35 x Large cloves garlic (4 ... 5 1 1/2 l Water (2 1/2 pints)
- - heads !!) 1 ts Sea salt
- 3 tb Extra virgin olive oil Black pepper
- 1 x Onion
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- Peel the cloves of garlic and roast them in 1 tb of the olive oil in a
- moderately hot oven, 190 oC/375 oF, for 15 ... 20 minutes, until they are
- just golden and soft but not brown.
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- Peel and quarter the onion, peel and slice the carrots, scrub (but do not
- peel) the potatoes and cut them into 2.5 cm (1 in) thick cubes. Boil all
- the together for about 15 minutes in the water with 1 ts of sea salt until
- the carrots and potatoes are soft.
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- Add the roast garlic cloves and their residual oil to the vegetables, cool
- slightly and liquidize. Season with pepper and stir 2 tb of olive oil into
- the soup before serving.
-
- (From: Brigid Allen, The soup book, M Papermac, ISBN 0 333 58224 1)
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