photo: kate-grigoryeva.livejournal.com French soup «Potage cultivateur»

French soup «Potage cultivateur»

Todays recipe is very simple soup with an imposing name «Potage cultivateur», which just means «farmers soup» in translation. Half an hour of slow work, a little bacon, vegetables, aromatic spices and of course, butter, which French cuisine is so rich with. Definitely serve the soup with crispy toasted baguette, sprinkled with Gruar cheese - it goes perfect with «Potage cultivateur».
Ingredients


Ingredients

  • Leek stalk
    - to taste
  • Carrot
    1 pcs
  • Turnip
    1 pcs
  • Potato
    2 pcs
  • Stalk of celery
    1 pcs
  • Sheets white cabbage
    2 pcs
  • Green peas
    2 tbsp
  • Kenyan beans
    4 pcs
  • Bacon
    50 g
  • Butter
    2 tbsp
  • Parsley
    - to taste
  • Thyme
    - to taste
  • Bay leaf
    1 pcs
  • Salt
    - to taste



Steps

  • 1. Put all the ingredients in a sheet of a leek, roll a tube and tie with a cooking string to make nothing fell out of Garni bouquet.
  • 2. Remove cartilages and skin from bacon and cut it into cubes. Fry in a tablespoon of butter until golden brown.
  • 3. Cut carrots into quarter rings, 2 mm thick, turnip - into small rectangles with a thickness of 2 mm, celery - also into equal parts of the same thickness. All the vegetables should be of about one size to be prepared evenly.
  • 4. Add carrots, turnips and celery to the bacon, stir and cover for 2-3 minutes.
  • 5. Cut leeks into thin half-rings, put in a pan.
  • 6. You can add a pinch of salt.
  • 7. Pour 1 liter of water into a saucepan, put Garni bouquet inside. Bring to a boil, remove the foam.
  • 8. Cut potatoes and turnips into identical pieces. Roll cabbage leaves into a tube and cut into thin strips. If you cut the vegetables for the soup in advance, the potatoes should be kept in water for not to darken.
  • 9. Add the potatoes and cabbage in moderately boiling soup.
  • 10. 5 minutes later add beans chopped into washers. I dont use the French names of the cuts, to make it clearer :)
  • 11. Several minutes after the beans add peas and cook for another 1 minute.
  • 12. Turn off the heat and mix a tablespoon of butter into the soup. Check the spices, if necessary add salt and freshly ground black pepper. Extract Garni bouquet. Leave the soup to stand for a bit, then serve.




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