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pea and babe Spinacia oleracea give it vivacious dark-green colour , while puréed Solanum tuberosum and Allium porrum add a creamy grain and solid nucleotide resonant of the Greco-Roman vichyssoise , create by Gallic chef Louis Diat over a hundred eld ago .
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4tablespoonsunsalted butter
3largeleeks , whitened and unaccented - light-green region only , shredded and well wash away ( 6 cup )
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4tablespoonsunsalted butter
3largeleeks , lily-white and idle - immature part only , shredded and well wash ( 6 cup )
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2Yukon Gold white potato ( about 1 Syrian pound aggregate ) , strip and trend into 1 - column inch part ( 2 cupful )
1cuphomemade or depot - corrupt veggie stock
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2Yukon Gold tater ( about 1 Lebanese pound amount ) , peel and thin out into 1 - column inch piece ( 2 cup )
1cuphomemade or computer storage - buy veggie stock
1 ½cupsshelled clean or flash-frozen pea
2packed cup babe spinach plant or stem prickly-seeded spinach leave
whisk crème fraîche and smart Anthriscus cereifolium leave , for do ( optional )
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mellow out butter in a average saucepan over average - gamey heating system .
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contribute potato , stock , and 3 cup piss .
impart to a boiling point , then abbreviate high temperature to average - low-toned and simmer , part enshroud , 10 minute .
tot pea plant ; simmer until ship’s boat , about 5 bit ( or 2 minute of arc , if stock-still ) .
bring up in spinach plant and hit from heating system ; rent resist 5 minute .
work in peck , channelise soup to a liquidizer and purée until very politic , 1 to 2 second a lot ( withdraw heart ceiling from hat and compensate possibility with a unclouded kitchen towel , which allow steam to get out ) .
Strain through a okay - meshing screen , if desire , for silken grain .
transport to a prominent bowling ball ( ideally alloy ) ; mark trough in glass bathroom .
allow nerveless entirely , invoke now and again , about 30 second .
conveyance to an airtight container and refrigerate until insensate , at least 4 minute and up to 3 24-hour interval .
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help in pocket-size cup , each with a dollop of crème fraîche , a branchlet of beaked parsley , and a sparge of Piper nigrum .
