Potato and Ham Soup

Ingredients

• 550 g peeled and diced potatoes
• 40 g diced celery
• 60 g finely chopped onion
• 90 g diced cooked ham
• 770 ml water
• Pinch of chicken bouillon granules
• 3 g salt, or to taste
• 2 g ground white or black pepper, or to taste
• 70 g butter
• 40 g flour
• 475 ml milk

Directions

1. Combine the potatoes, celery, onion, ham and water in a stockpot.
2. Bring to a boil, then cook over medium heat until potatoes are tender, about 10 to 15 minutes.
3. Stir in the chicken bouillon, salt and pepper.
4. In a separate saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat.
5. Whisk in flour with a fork, and cook, stirring constantly until thick, about 1 minute.
6. Slowly stir in milk as not to allow lumps to form until all of the milk has been added.
7. Continue stirring over medium-low heat until thick, 4 to 5 minutes.
8. Stir the milk mixture into the stockpot, and cook soup until heated through.
9. Serve immediately.

 

Where to source your ingredients

Vegetables & Herbs

Westmeath Organic Produce – Food Market at Buy Lo on Dublin Road, Mullingar every Friday morning

Milk

Moonshine Organic Farm – Organic milk – fresh every day available straight from the farm