Quick RECIPE guide for soup using leftover chicken, a leek and potatoes?

[CornishTeaTime]

Chicken is cooked and leftover from roast. Have 1 big leek and a couple of potatoes have double cream too.

Want to make a quick soup,can someone give me a quick guide, nothing fancy!

Sauté your chopped leek and potatoes, add boiling water and a stock cube. When cooked, about 15 mins, If you want it creamy blitz it in the bender with some cream. Add the diced chicken when warming up to serve.

Fry the leek gentle ( with carrot of you have one)

Add chicken and potatoes and water or stock

Season according to your preference - salt and pepper , nutmeg and cayenne , sage works well with chicken

Cook till soft

Sone sweetcorn from the freezer goes well with chicken also

Whizz up ( if you can't do that just chop everything very small to make a broth rather than soup)

Add dash of cream at the very end - before serving

Great ideas, so ok to add the cooked chicken in say cold for it to heat througj before whizzing?

Do I really need a carrot in? I have one but will the soup go orange

Only have veg oxo cubes

As @Yougetmoreofwhatyoufocuson said. Maybe add a pinch of nutmeg for a bit more flavour.

You can add a carrot, one won't make it orange!

You don't need carrot but it tends to add something to the taste - it won't go that orange - and you don't any anaemic soup

You can also add a stick of celery to the gentle fry stage

As long as the chicken gets heated properly it doesn't matter when it goes in

( I tend to lump everything in and leave it to make it simplest - lazy really )

Ive started and my potatoes have literally disolved!

That's fine unless you really wanted broth with lumpy bits - they just thicken the soup any way

If you are going to blend, don’t put the chicken in until after. It’s fine if the potatoes dissolve as it adds body to your soup. Veggie cubes are good.

I like lumpy soup! So I'd fry the leek a bit in olive oil, add some dried herbs and garlic, then add the potatoes quite large chunks. Fry for a bit.
Then add enough water to cover and some bouillon powder or just salt if you only have that. Then add the cooked chicken after a few minutes.
Simmer the whole lot until tender, then add cream right at the end. Stir throughout.
If you've got frozen peas or spinach you could add those too just before the cream?

Opps chicken in already. Right it seems to have cooked down really quickly, will blend then add cream.

Turned out lovely, texture....chicken was a bit grainy, so Im.going to blend a little more

Thanks for the update