Preparation Time: 30 minutes or less Cooking Time: 1 - 2 hours Serves: 2
Category: Dinner Sub-Category: Soup Cuisine: American

Ingredients:

Here is Potato Leek Chowder, a simple soup for the beginner cook. It's filling, very cheap to make, and full of flavor. I don't recommend freezing this soup, however, it keeps very well in the fridge for a week or so. Start to finish time is roughly 2 hours.

8 oz bacon, chopped (4-5 strips)
1 lb Polish sausage, sliced into rings (1 package)
8 oz onions, chopped finely (half a large onion)
8 oz leeks, slivered (2 leeks)
2 T garlic, minced
1 lb small red potatoes, quartered (4 potatoes)
8 oz Russett potato, cut in 1" cubes (1 potato)
64 oz chicken stock or broth
16 oz can of diced tomato with juice
1 T freshly chopped tarragon (1 tsp. if dried)


Step 1:

This is my mise en place; all the ingredients are ready to go. Keep the potatoes in water so that they don't discolor. The slivered leeks are soaking in water. Leeks tend to be dirty, so you need to let the sediment fall to the bottom of the container. When you cook with leeks, trim off the leaves and use only the white part of the leek.