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a simple real food recipe :: potato soup

Warm, rich, and delicious.This soup is both nourishing and comforting. You are going to love how simple this is to make to!

Let me know how you like it!

Author: Renee - www.theSIMPLEmoms.com

Ingredients

4-6 strips pastured bacon (depending on how much you like – we love our bacon so I opt for more!)
2 leeks, chopped
2-3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 ½ quarts chicken stock
8 small/medium red or yellow potatoes, chopped
1-2 cups whole milk or coconut milk (for the whole milk, raw is preferable. Or low pastureized, non homogenized. Never ULP. See Kitchen tips for a great coconut milk recipe if you are dairy free – you could skip this ingredient if you are dairy free as well).
Sea salt/pepper to taste

Instructions

In a soup pot, fry the bacon. Once it is cooked, set the bacon aside but keep the bacon fat in the bottom of the pot.
Saute the leeks in the bacon fat with a pinch of salt for a few minutes.
Add the garlic and cook for a minute.
Add the stock and potatoes and bring to a boil.
Reduce to a simmer until the potatoes are cooked through about 10 minutes.
Turn off the heat and add the milk.
Puree with hand held blender or in a blender
Add sea salt and pepper to taste, and chop up the bacon for stirring in or for garnish on the top – your choice!

Kitchen Tips:

Freezes up great! Batch up if you find those potatoes or leeks on sale, or if you have a pig share and have a lot of bacon to be used up!
Make it as thick or thin as you wish – you could leave out the milk if you want or add more stock for a thinner soup too.
Read THIS and THIS to inform yourself on why healthy friendly fats like bacon fat from pastured pigs are not bad for you!

YOUR TURN!

Let me know what you think if you try it!

This post was shared at Real Food Forager’s Fat Tuesday, and The Polikva Family’s Family Table Tuesday!

March 14, 2013 By Renee

About Renee

the real food hippie :: renee is married to her superman and mama to her 3 busy bees. she loves soaking up the sun, real butter, and julia child. her passion is helping people take baby steps to raise a real food generation in this world of highly processed food – one with healed guts, functioning minds, and solid health. she also blogs at Raising Generation Nourished. Find more of Renee on twitter pinterest and Google+.