Smooth And Spicy Spinach Soup Recipe

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Smooth And Spicy Spinach Soup
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Ingredients
10
Count
Nutrition
281
Calories
Total time
50
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Roughly chop the Leek and the Onion. Get your stock ready and waiting!
  2. Over a medium heat, melt the butter, then throw in the chopped vegetables, covering the pot and cooking for 5 minutes, or until the onions are starting to clear.
  3. Meanwhile, finely chop the clove of garlic, then when the onions are clearing, add the garlic, cover and cook for another couple of minutes.
  4. Roughly chop the potato, then add to the pot (give it a good stir), cover, and cook for another couple of minutes.
  5. Grind in a really good whack of black pepper, turn the heat up a bit, then add the 500ml of stock (I used a Polish Chicken soup stock powder, which is pretty salty, but also pretty good :)).
  6. Bring the pot back up to the boil, reduce the heat, cover, and leave to simmer for about 10 minutes.
  7. Add the milk and half of your washed spinach leaves. Mix this well, bring back to a low simmer, and cover again. Cook for another 15 minutes or so. (Probably worth keeping an eye on it at this point, as boy does that milk boil over :)).
  8. Check that the spinach has well and truly wilted away, then take the soup off the heat, and allow it to cool for a few minutes. It should be looking a very pale green colour with lots of spinach floating around.
  9. When it's cooled a bit, blend it until it's completely smooth.
  10. Now - the cool 'spinachy' trick I heard from someone - add the remaining spinach leaves, and blend again down to smooth. This'll make it 'seriously' dark green (and taste just spangly!).
  11. Add another good whack of black pepper, the tub of low fat crème fraiche and perhaps a pinch or two of salt, then stick the pot back on a low heat, and bring it back up to a very very light simmer whilst stirring the mixture. It does work without the crème fraiche if you fancy it that way, but I found a pot, and it needed using up!
  12. Eat.
  13. Feel nice and warm!
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 280.54 Kcal (1175 kJ)
Calories from fat 156.81 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 17.42g 27%
Cholesterol 23.72mg 8%
Sodium 263.72mg 11%
Potassium 411.42mg 9%
Total Carbs 20.34g 7%
Sugars 10.57g 42%
Dietary Fiber 1.15g 5%
Protein 10.07g 20%
Vitamin C 2.8mg 5%
Vitamin A 0.3mg 9%
Iron 0.6mg 3%
Calcium 192mg 19%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 85.1 Kcal (356 kJ)
Calories from fat 47.56 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 5.28g 27%
Cholesterol 7.2mg 8%
Sodium 79.99mg 11%
Potassium 124.79mg 9%
Total Carbs 6.17g 7%
Sugars 3.21g 42%
Dietary Fiber 0.35g 5%
Protein 3.05g 20%
Vitamin C 0.9mg 5%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 9%
Iron 0.2mg 3%
Calcium 58.2mg 19%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 6.8
    Points
  • 8
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium,
  • low cholesterol

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