Celery and Lovage Soup

Name: Celery and Lovage Soup
Yield: serves 6–8
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground pepper; 900 ml light home-made chicken stock; a little cream or creamy milk; 140 g chopped potatoes; 45 g butter; 2–4 sprigs lovage (optional); 450 g finely chopped celery; 110 g chopped onions

Preparation info

serves
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Darina Allen's Simply Delicious Suppers

By Darina Allen

Published 2001

About

Lovage is a perennial herb with a pronounced celery flavour. Use it sparingly to enhance the flavour of soups, stews and stocks.

Ingredients

45 g butter
140 g chopped potatoes
110 g

Snack
Lunch
Starter
Gluten-free
Soup

Method

Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. When it foams, add the potatoes, onions, celery and lovage; toss in the butter until evenly coated. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper. Cover with a paper lid (to keep in the steam) and the saucepan lid and sweat over a gentle heat for around 10 minutes. Add the stock and simmer until the vegetables are soft but not cooked, approximately 10–