Cooking Over an Open Fire: English Bacon, Leek and Potato Soup

Name: Cooking Over an Open Fire: English Bacon, Leek and Potato Soup
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 454 grams English-style bacon (available here), chopped; 2 Tbsps grass-fed butter or ghee (available here); 3 carrots, peeled and chopped; 2 Tbsps chopped chives; 1 Tbsp fresh thyme leaves; 2 mediums leeks, white and light-green parts only, sliced thin; 4 mediums potatoes, peeled and chopped into 1/2-inch pieces

Cooking Over an Open Fire: English Bacon, Leek and Potato Soup might be just the main course you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains about 14g of protein, 34g of fat, and a total of 463 calories. This recipe covers 22% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free diet. It will be a hit at your Autumn event. Head to the store and pick up bacon, butter, potatoes, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the potatoes you could follow this main course with the Sweet Potatoes Scones as a dessert. L. P. (Bacon, Leek & Potato) Soup, and Leek and Potato Soup with Bacon.

Instructions

Melt the butter in a heavy stock pot over medium. When it foams and froths, toss in the sliced leeks and fry them in the butter until they soften and become translucent. Stir in the thyme and bacon, and continue cooking the bacon until it renders its fat and is cooked through - about 6 minutes.Dump the carrots and potatoes into the pot, stir in the broth and simmer, covered, until the vegetables become tender in the heat of the soup - about 40 minutes.Ladle the soup into bowls, top with chopped chives and serve.

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