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Dairy Council

Young Cook Finalist Recipes

Potato and leek soup with wheaten bread

Servings
Serves 2
Chef
Alexandra King
School
Lurgan College
Teacher
Mrs C McTernaghan Key Stage 4

Ingredients

Soup:

25g Northern Ireland butter

1 small onion, sliced

3 medium potatoes, cubed

1 medium leek, sliced (white part discarded)

600ml vegetable stock

20ml Northern Ireland double cream

Pinch of salt

½ tsp freshly ground pepper

1 sprig of parsley, chopped

Wheaten bread:

140g soda bread flour

350g wholemeal flour

1¼ tsp salt

1¼ tsp baking soda

100g caster sugar

60g Northern Ireland butter

450ml Northern Ireland buttermilk

½ carrot, peeled and grated

50g Northern Ireland butter for spreading

Servings
Serves 2
Chef
Alexandra King
School
Lurgan College
Teacher
Mrs C McTernaghan Key Stage 4

Method

Heat 25g butter in a pan and add the potatoes, onions and leeks. Cook until vegetables begin to soften.

Add the vegetable stock, season with salt and pepper and simmer for 20 minutes until the vegetables are soft.

Leave to cool, then blend until smooth using a hand blender or liquidizer.

Return to the pan, add the cream and stir well.

To make the wheaten bread, firstly pre–heat the oven to 180ºC.

Sift the flours, salt, bicarbonate of soda and sugar together in a bowl. Rub together with butter until it resembles fine breadcrumbs and then mix in buttermilk gradually.

Lightly dust the work surface with flour and turn out the dough, and then knead gently.

Add the grated carrot and knead into the bread.

Place the dough into a greased load tin and place in the oven for 30 minutes.

Slice wheaten bread and serve with soup.