Potato Soup Recipe

Italian cuisine has an inimitable style, and so is their potato soup, flavored with pesto. The Pesto flavored Potato Soup recipe is given below:

For this Soup you need:

500 grams potatoes
500 grams onions (finely chopped)
2 ½ cups chicken stock
½ cup double cream
2 tbsp olive oil
2 ½ cups milk
¾ cup conchigliette (shell pasta)
2 tbsp butter
Salt and pepper
Fresh chopped parsley

For the pesto sauce:

2/3 cups pine nuts - crushed
1 cup chopped parsley
2/3 cups freshly grated parmesan
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
2 tbsp chopped basil leaves
White pepper to taste
½ cup olive oil

(To make the sauce, blend together all the ingredients.)

Heat a large pan and fry together the onions, potatoes in butter. Cook together for about 10 minutes, till potatoes are almost half done and onions are translucent.

Add the chicken stock and milk, and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 10 more minutes. Then add the pasta and cook over low flame for another 10 minutes.

Finally add the cream and cook on low heat for 15 minutes more.

Add the chopped parsley, salt and pepper and two tablespoons of pesto sauce.
Serve with garlic bread.

French Leek and Potato Soup Recipe

This delicious soup can be served hot or cold.

You need:
350 grams floury potatoes
1 leek
1 small onion
3 cups chicken stock
4 tbsp cream
Salt and pepper

Peel and chop the onion and the potatoes. Slice the leeks.

In a pan, place the potatoes, leek and onion pieces; add salt and the chicken stock. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer for at least 1 hour.

Blend the broth till it becomes a smooth mixture, and let it cool a bit. Then add the cream, heat again but do not boil.

Serve it garnished with chopped chives.