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Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Parsley gnocchi with parsley soup



Ingredients


Soup

225g
Butter (unsalted)
6
Leeks (thinly sliced)
4 large bunches
Flat parsley (stalks chopped)
3 large
Potatoes (chopped)
2¼ lt
 Veg stock
450 ml
Whipping cream











Method

1.      Sweat the leeks & parsley stalks in the butter without colouring until thoroughly cooked.
2.      Add the potatoes; stock & season simmer for about 20 mins.
3.      Chop one of the bunches of parsley & add to the soup simmer for 5 mins then remove from the heat.
4.      Blanch the remaining parsley in boiling salted water for 20 seconds then refresh in iced water.
5.      Liquidise the soup base in a blender adding the blanched & drained parsley.
6.      Pass through fine chinos before adding the cream.
7.      Cool over ice to keep the colour.

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