Potato soup

Anyone have a good recipe? Preferably something vegetarian/vegan or something that can be easily vegetarian-ized (ie, no bacon as an important ingredient, chicken stock ok since it can be easily subbed).

I have no input but BOY am I excited to see everyones recipies!

I always just chop up some potatoes and leeks, put them in the pan and heat them slightly with a Knorr stockpot thingy--the new herb ones are great, or a vegetable one--then add boiling water, cook until the veg are soft, then blitz in a blender and add some milk or cream.  It works with any combination of veg, really, and you can add extra seasoning.  Last week, I made a curried parsnip soup with parsnips, potatoes, onions, and a nice curry powder blend.  

My take on potato soup - chop up potatoes into smallish chunks, sautee with some garlic (and onions if you are so inclined) add some seasoning/herbs, tomato passata/sauce to taste and water and boil away until potatoes are cooked. Serve with slices of hard-boiled eggs mixed in!

I made this soup a couple of weeks ago and man, it was super yummy.

This is what I make...DH doesn't eat meat soooo........

2 onions, chopped
1/2 cup butter or margarine
4 potatoes, peeled and chopped
1 tablespoon flour
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 cup water
2 cups milk
2 teaspoons salt

Fry onions in butter.  Add potatoes and celery.  Stir in four until golden brown.  Add water, milk, and salt.  Cook till potatoes are soft.  Mash a bit, serve with crackers.

My mother's potato soup:

vague but hard to screw up....

potatoes
few carrots
few stalks celery
large onion or 2
butter (real!-never margarine)
salt
black pepper

In large pot, brown onion in butter. Add veggies and lightly saute. Add veg broth to cover. Bring to boil and then lower heat to simmer till veg soft. Add whole milk till as creamy as you like and more butter if necessary. Season well (she swore by lots of black pepper).

Meanwhile make spätzle like egg dumplings.

1 cup flour
Salt
1 egg
2 tsp. vegetable oil
2 tbsp. melted butter

Combine flour and 1 tsp. salt in a large bowl. Beat together egg, oil, and 1/2 cup water in a separate bowl, then whisk egg mixture into flour mixture. Set aside and allow to rest for at least 20 minutes. Place spätzle maker over a large pot of boiling salted water over high heat. Fill hopper with batter, then move hopper back and forth over grate, allowing dumplings to fall into the boiling water. Cook until dumplings float, 1–2 minutes, then remove with a slotted spoon, refresh under cold water, and transfer to a cookie sheet to cool. Repeat process, forming, cooking, and cooling dumplings until all the batter has been used. Add to soup.

My mom didn't have a dumpling maker for years and would drop the batter by little spoonfuls into the boiling water.

This is a labour intensive recipe and not exactly fat free but it is seriously good/filling!

I made a stunning potato soup last night, inspired from this thread I didn't use a recipe, but I think it's one of those things where you don't need to be too exacting.

Firstly, I chopped an onion and about 6 cloves of garlic, I gently fried the onion and garlic in olive oil until it was really soft but not browned. Then I added about 3 big potatoes that I cut into little cubes, and a small nob of butter, and fried the potatoes a bit until softer, then added enough chicken stock to cover them, salt, pepper and about a 1-1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper. Simmered on medium until the potatoes were really soft, then blended with an immersion blender and turned down low.
Added a massive handful of chives, some grated parmesan and about a tablespoon of low-fat cream cheese, it was super thick at this point so I loosened it with milk until it was the right consistency. I also think you could use cream here if you didn't care about calories.

I ladled it up with some red leicester, pancetta cubes, more chives and spring onions on top, and it was totally lush.

Yummy suggestions all around! Especially Cheesebiscuit, wow, that sounds good. Thanks guys, looks like I'm just going to wing it.

Yummy suggestions all around! Especially Cheesebiscuit, wow, that sounds good. Thanks guys, looks like I'm just going to wing it.

Was one of the nicest things I'd had in ages! DH went mad for it, so thanks for starting the thread as I'd have never thought of it otherwise!