Spinach soup

Spinach soup

A vibrant green blended soup with half-fat crème fraîche that's healthy and filling - make a batch and freeze

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Recipe by Caroline Hire

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 25 mins

Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian

Vegetarian if veg stock used

Method

  1. Heat the butter in a large saucepan. Add the spring onions, leek, celery and potato. Stir and put on the lid. Sweat for 10 minutes, stirring a couple of times.
  2. Pour in the stock and cook for 10 - 15 minutes until the potato is soft.
  3. Add the spinach and cook for a couple of minutes until wilted. Use a hand blender to blitz to a smooth soup.
  4. Stir in the crème fraîche. Reheat and serve.
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Dinner party tip

Drizzle with double cream for a vibrant contrast that looks great on your dinner party table.

PER SERVING

192 kcalories, protein 6.5g, carbohydrate 13.1g, fat 12.6 g, saturated fat 7.2g, fibre 5.4g, sugar 4.4g, salt 2 g

Recipe from bbcgoodfood.com, April 2012.

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  • 26 April 2012

    vegetarian recipes rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    have't got any fresh spinach in at the moment but going to try it tonight using tinned. sounds good for us veggies

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  • 02 May 2012

    gemma rated this recipe

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  • 04 May 2012

    Nuala rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    This was a great way to use spinach, and mine came out as the greenest thing I've ever seen! I found it quite bland, though - I ended up adding salt to it, which I never do when I'm making soup with stock cubes, and I also added quite a lot of nutmeg to add some flavour / spice. It tasted better as leftovers when the flavours developed more.

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  • 16 May 2012

    Hortensja rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Nice soup, I used parsnip instead of potato to avoid starch and frozen spinach.

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  • 13 October 2012

    Anzo commented on this recipe

    A little bland but nice with some grated Parmesan on top. I also added some black pepper

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  • 18 February 2013

    Wendi C commented on this recipe

    Oh my god, it's amazing! So easy to make & tastes so lovely & good for you too.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 25 mins

Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian

Vegetarian if veg stock used

Ingredients

  • 25g butter
  • 1 bunch spring onions , chopped
  • 1 leek (about 120g), sliced
  • 2 small sticks celery (about 85g), sliced
  • 1 small potato (about 200g) , peeled and diced
  • ½ tsp ground black pepper
  • 1l stock (made with two chicken or vegetable stock cubes)
  • 2 x 200-235g bags spinach
  • 150g half-fat crème fraîche
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PER SERVING

192 kcalories, protein 6.5g, carbohydrate 13.1g, fat 12.6 g, saturated fat 7.2g, fibre 5.4g, sugar 4.4g, salt 2 g

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