Cooking with Michy

Usually eaten hot, it’s also surprisingly delicious eaten fridge-cold on a summer’s day with a squeeze of lemon juice and a dollop of natural yoghurt.

 Ingredients

 2 carrots, peeled and sliced

 2 sticks celery, sliced

 2 medium onions, peeled and roughly chopped

 400 g leeks

 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced

 400 g potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 cm dice.

 2 tbsp. olive oil

 2 tbsp. Chicken base

 7 c. boiling water

 Salt and pepper to taste

 Instructions:

 1. Cut the ends off the leeks, quarter them lengthways. Wash them under running water and cut them into 1 cm slices.

 2. Place a large pan on high heat and add 2 tbsp. of olive oil.

 3. Add all your chopped and sliced ingredients and mix together with a wooden spoon.

 4. Cook for around 10 minutes with the lid askew, until the carrots have softened, but are still holding their shape, and the onion and leeks are lightly golden.

 5. Put the chicken base into a pan and pour in 7 c. boiling water from the kettle. Stir until the base is dissolved, then add to the vegetables.

 6. Add your potatoes. Give the soup a good stir and bring to the boil.

 7. Reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minute with the lid on.

 8. Remove the pan from the heat. Season with salt and pepper.

 9. Serve like this or pulse until smooth using a hand blender.

Source: jamieoliver.com

Review: This was my first test to show off to my parents the cooking skills I have learned so far and it went great. It allowed me to really use my knife skills by cutting up all the different vegetables and ingredients required. I really struggled with getting everything prepare the right way as I have never had to cook that large of a soup all by myself. Even though I struggled a little bit with preparing I showed this soup who is the boss when I cooked it. After now cooking this soup 2 times I didn’t really have any changes to make except for trying to find something else that could add a little bit of a spicier flavour. During the preparing of this soup I learned how to cut multiple vegetable in different ways witch helped me create a unique soup. For this being my first test I found it went extremely well with very few mistakes.