leek and potato soup (uk version - metric)

Love the recipe, will use as a base. So many possible variations, but all the ingredients I love. Add some beans will increase protein value. Point is, especially with soup, it's not a cake, you can vary, mix n match ingredients. Even add some leftover chicken, and/or substitute some potato for pasta, rice, or drop dumplings. One tip I can offer... make in a smaller pressure cooker, not only quicker to cook and more energy efficient, but if made in advance just keep the lid sealed, put to one side, keeps days out of fridge, just like having a huge canned soup! Soup is sterile until opened, then must be consumed quickly.

I have made the soup loads of times, but am desperate to know nutritional values; the calorific value, carb value, fat and protein values for my weight loss programme. Any ideas please as I know this soup is a lot better for me than the ready made versions I'm trying to substitute it for?

im using it for french dude!

Delicious and easy. For fresher flavor, drizzle some lime or lemon juice on your bowl. To simplify, I smashed the stock cube and poured it into the soup along with hot water heated in the microwave. Simmered everything a few minutes extra for the potatoes to cook. Definitely a keeper!

Tastes great!!! I don't add the Garlic for personal reasons but this soup is a winner with the family everytime :D and it is this simple recipie I keep returning to! Wouldn't liquidize it again though, prefer it's natural texture. Also I find 400g potatoes isn't quite enough so I throw in 3 biggi'ns. x

This is the first soup I have ever made, just served some to my friends and they loved it.

Just made this soup, used fry light instead of olive oil as I am weight watching, I could live on this soup it is so tasty. Is there anywhere that tells you how many cals per portion.

Simple & tasty. Easy to prepare.

Yum! So good, quick to make, and makes a huge pot. Brilliant.

Our daughter just made this soup. IT WAS AWESOME. Its pretty cool here and there is snow on the mountains all around us. So it was very welcome. I am calling this Soul Soup. We decided it could have white navy beans in it. Or a mound of cooked wild rice in the middle of the soup plate and the soup swimming around it. We will make this soup again and again!

for those of us who are unsure of the ingredients, i usually make it with two large potatoes and it turns out lovely

I am a big fan of JO's recipes in general but I'm not sure why he feels the need to give helpful hints such as put the soup in bowls. Does he think we're going to give people straws?

Also try adding a bit of bacon for extra flavour. Put in with butter, onions and garlic etc at the start.<br />

There is an error in the ingredients - 2 cloves garlic, 400g potatoes!

I made this for dinner and it was awesome! Didn't know vegetable soup could taste so great. Thank you!

Use 1lbs potatoes as stated on same recipe on USA website

Made this twice this past week! First time I took some to work everyone wanted some so made another huge pot for everyone there! Thanks for a brilliant recipe!

Great option for cold days that arrived with the autumn over here in Buenos Aires. Just loved it!

hi sorry but am i jsut not seeing how many spuds to use ? am just gonna go with same amount as leeks?

I made this for dinner tonight, we loved it. Thank you Jamie!

I made this yesterday, my children are not one for eating veg, i blended the soup at the end and my goodness this made a big pot of soup and it was gine within the hour. they loved it, will be making this again, once we have tried other soups.