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SOUP
LEEK AND POTATO SOUP
Serves 4
INGREDIENTS
40g butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 leeks, thinly sliced
750g potatoes, roughly chopped
1 litre chicken stock
Salt and white pepper
Chopped chives, to serve
METHOD
1. Heat butter and oil in a large saucepan,
add leeks and cook, stirring, for 3-4
minutes until softened. Add potatoes
and stock. Bring to the boil then reduce
heat and cook, covered, for about 20
minutes or until potatoes are soft.
Remove from heat and allow soup to
cool slightly.
2. Blend soup in batches with lid on jug on
Speed 1/MIX until just blended.
3. Return pureed soup to saucepan; season
to taste and heat on low until hot.
4. Serve soup topped with fresh chopped
chives.
TIP
If soup becomes too thick when
cooking or blending add a little extra
stock or water.
CHICKEN, CORN AND GINGER
SOUP
Serves 4
INGREDIENTS
1 tablespoon peanut oil
4 green onions, thinly sliced
5cm piece fresh ginger, finely chopped
3 cups fresh or frozen corn kernels
1 litre chicken stock
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon shao xing cooking wine
½ teaspoon sesame oil
2 small chicken breast fillets, thinly sliced
¼ cup roughly chopped fresh coriander leaves
(optional)
White pepper
METHOD
1. Heat oil in a large saucepan, add onions
and ginger and cook, stirring, for 2
minutes. Add corn and cook, stirring
occasionally, for a further 3-4 minutes.
2. Add stock and bring to the boil; reduce
heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
Remove from heat and allow to cool
slightly.
3. Transfer half of the mixture and blend
with lid on jug, on speed 2/CHOP for
30 seconds. Return pureed soup to
remaining soup in saucepan with soy,
wine, sesame and chicken. Cook on
a medium high heat until soup starts
to simmer and chicken is just cooked
through.
4. Serve with fresh chopped coriander and
white pepper to taste.
TIP
Shao xing is a Chinese cooking wine
and is available from Asian grocery
stores and some supermarkets.