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Potato Chowder: A comforting soup for Day 14 of COVID Isolation

Course soups stews

Ingredients
  

  • 2 no Potatoes
  • 2 no Onion
  • 1 no Carrot
  • 2 cups Veg stock or water with a stock cube or just plain water
  • 2 Bay leaves
  • Salt to taste
  • Black pepperto taste
  • 2 tsp all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup Milk
  • 2 tsp Olive Oil

Instructions
 

  • Peel potato and carrot and cut into small cubes, so that it cooks faster. Or if you are a person that doesn't like chopping, don't bother just roughly cut them up. Finely chop onions
  • Heat a pan with olive oil, add onions and saute until translucent. Add the carrot, potato, bay leaves and saute for a few minutes. Add the vegetable stock and bring to a boil, Mix flour with milk and add it to the pot and bring it up to a boil. At this stage, stir it well!
  • Cover and cook until the potato and carrot are fully cooked. Remove from heat, let it cool down. If you have an immersion blender, then you can do the next step without it fully cooling.
  • Take out half the quantity of soup and puree it in a blender. Also, remove the bay leaves before pureeing the soup. Add the soup back to the pot with a little more water or stock depending the consistency of the soup.
  • Season to taste and serve hot with your favourite toppings.
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