COLD COLD COLD COLD MELBOURNE WINTER!

So what do you reckon we need to fight the winter blues? Lots of warm tasty soups!
Now, I have been quite inspired lately to make soups. They make good fill-me-up for my lunch breaks and immensely cheap to make. You be aghast by the kind of price people are paying for soups in melbourne.

Last week, I made potato and sweet corn soup. It was totally unplanned. I was walking round and round the Safeway supermarket in my area mulling over what to get, as I walked around the veg section, I was thinking potato and leek soup. But you need bacon for that, and I do not want to buy 100g of bacon only to use a slice. So, I dropped the idea.

Still wandering around Safeway, and holding 2 big potatoes, I came across some canned sweetcorn on sale. Not bad. AU 1.29 for 420g. Let's buy a can!


Anyway, my housemate reckon I should write recipes for fellow students that are looking for recipes that is budget but yet healthy and delicious. Well, I have to say this potato and sweetcorn soup is restaurant grade :D

POTATO AND SWEETCORN SOUP

300g potatoes (use potatoes thats good for mashing)
1/4 white onion
2 litre chicken stock
420g sweet corn
100ml liquid cream
100g butter

Peel and cut potatoes into cubes.
Slice the onions.
Together with the chicken stock, bring to boil with the potatoes and onion, once boil, simmer until potatoes starts to be soft. Add in 3/4 can of sweetcorn, reserving the other 1/4 for garnish later.
Mash the potatoes with fork as you simmer and using a handheld mixer, pulse the soup until fine, if its too thick, add more stock and bring to boil. Add in butter and pulse with the mixer and finish with cream.

Stir in remaining sweetcorn for that crunchy bite.

Next Stop: Soup fun with butternut squash.

Labels: cheap eats, recipe, soup