Grammy's Kitchen · Potato Soup · Leek and Potato Soup
One of 78 potato soup recipes we measured
It ranks #1 of 78 for body among the potato soup recipes we compared. 9 cooks on www.kitchensanctuary.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 78.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 3% | 149% |
| dairy | 13% | 35% |
| fat | 0% | 3% |
| thickener | 0% | 0% |
| aromatics | 0% | 16% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 60 g | 60 g (4 tbsp) unsalted butter |
| 150 g | 1 small onion (finely chopped) |
| 3 large leeks (green parts discarded, white (or very pale green) parts sliced) | |
| 6 g | 2 cloves garlic (minced) |
| 2 g | 1/4 tsp salt |
| 2 g | 1/4 tsp celery salt |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp black pepper |
| 450 g | 450 g (1 lb) floury potatoes* (peeled and chopped into bitesize pieces) |
| 1 litre (4 cups) chicken or vegetable stock | |
| 60 ml (1/4 cup) double/heavy cream | |
| 30 g | 2 tbsp double/heavy cream |
| 12 g | 2 tbsp freshly chopped chives |
| good pinch black pepper |
Method: 9 steps, published by www.kitchensanctuary.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“This is beautiful 🤩. I have made a lot of leek/potato soup and this is definitely the best! I used my homemade chicken stock, leeks out the garden (the best!) and added some Stilton. I tasted it before and after the Stilton and both were so yummy 😋 I can’t” — a cook, 5.0★
“I rarely write reviews but this was so good that I had to. I started making soups to take to work for lunch. I tried a few soup recipes from your website and they are all spot on. This soup I made today, and it was amazingly delicious .” — a cook, 5.0★