Can I make (nice) soup with spring onions and potatoes?

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Reason I'm asking is dd and I are sick, sent dh out on a mission to buy leeks for a potato and leek soup for lunch tomorrow. Can't face going out really.

Appreciate him heading off in this weather but he brought back spring onions, claiming that they are leeks. So I'm wondering if spring onion and potato soup might work?

Worth a go if nothing else.

I made soup yesterday with cabbage, onion, potato and something else green. Was all right.

sounds healthy.

I'm not a natural cook, more of a grudging one and so I never know what might work. Need a step by step (cooking for dummies style) recipe.

Might have a google tomorrow , see if this is a known recipe!

Melt butter
Cook onion for 10 minutes until soft but not browned.
Pour in need to check ml of stock.
Cook for 15 minutes.
Add potato with stock.
add veg
cook for 5 minutes
eat

It should work, you can make soup out of most things. Never tried it but this is how I would do it.

Chop and fry an onion with the white part of the spring onion to get it started. Add diced potato (you'd probably need one or two medium potatoes) once the onions are soft and stir.

Add some veg or chicken stock and simmer until the potatoes are cooked. Add the chopped greens from the spring onion right at the end. Season with pepper and salt if you need it (although the stock may already have salt).

You can blend the soup if you like.

800g spring onions about 7 bunches trimmed
50g unsalted butter
1 clove garlic peeled and crushed
half teaspoon celery salt
2 teaspoons cumin seeds lightly crushed
1.5 litres chicken or veg stock
1 large floury potato peeled and diced
100ml single cream
salt and pepper

chop spring onions roughly, keep green and white parts separate. Melt butter in large pan and gently fry white spring onion, garlic, celery salt and cumin for 3 mins, turning regularly.Stir in stock and potato and bring almost to the boil. Reduce heat, cover and cook gently for 20 mins until potatoes tender. Add green spring onion and cook for another 3 mins.
Blitz in blender until smooth. Return to apn stir in 75ml of cream. put in bowls add rest of cream on top.

Very yummy. Not esp healthy tho....

oh thanks very much you both. I was wondering whether to have onion and spring onion or if that was overdoing it but then leek is a lot like onion anyway and I use onion for that one.

Ok I feel up to that. Will give it a try tomorrow. Poor dh though, arguing with me that I do not know what leek is and that spring onions are defintiely leeks.

Try arguing with a lawyer....

He was also telling me that I'm getting confused with chives

I'm not a whizz in the kitchen I know but I know the difference between leeks, spring onions and chives!

that's interesting too ruh with garlic as well.

Hmm spoilt for choice now, so it is obviously not so batty a soup idea after all. Dh did think to bring cream, I noticed.

My recipe also says serve with pepper and a swirl of cream. Forgot the garlic too.

it's simmering away on the stove now. So thanks for the help everyone.

I told dh this morning that after consulting with an expert forum online I have found out that potato and spring onion soup is in fact really nice, so it was great that he picked them up instead of leeks since we get to try something new.

He's happy now.

He is also willing to admit today that spring onions are in fact spring onions and not leeks.

what a fabulous example of matrimonial give and take