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🍽️ Creamy spinach soup with toasted pine nuts and blue cheese
353 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 800 g spinach
- salt
- 300 g floury potatoes
- 2 shallots
- 1 clove garlic
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 800 ml vegetable broth
- 100 ml whipping cream
- pepper (from a grinder)
- 50 g pine nuts
- 80 g blue cheese (e.g. Gorgonzola)
Instructions
- 1. Wash the spinach thoroughly and remove any wilted or damaged leaves.
- 2. Set aside a few fresh spinach leaves for later decoration.
- 3. Blanch the remaining spinach briefly in boiling salted water (cook briefly in boiling water).
- 4. Stop the cooking process immediately by placing the spinach in cold water (shock).
- 5. Let the spinach drain well and chop it finely.
- 6. Peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes.
- 7. Peel the shallots and the garlic clove.
- 8. Finely chop the shallots and the garlic.
- 9. Heat oil in a pot and sauté the shallots and garlic until translucent.
- 10. Add the potato cubes to the pot.
- 11. Deglaze the mixture with the vegetable broth.
- 12. Let the soup simmer for about 15 minutes on low heat.
- 13. Add the cream (keep 2 tablespoons for later) and the chopped spinach to the soup.
- 14. Puree the soup finely with a hand blender.
- 15. Optionally pass the soup through a fine sieve to make it even smoother.
- 16. Check the consistency and reduce the soup further if you want it thicker.
- 17. Add a little more broth if the soup is too thick.
- 18. Season the soup finally with salt and pepper to taste.
- 19. Toast the pine nuts in a dry pan without oil.
- 20. Let the toasted pine nuts cool down completely.
- 21. Cut the blue cheese into small strips.
- 22. Distribute the hot soup onto the serving plates.
- 23. Decorate the soup with the reserved fresh spinach leaves.
- 24. Dot the soup with the 2 tablespoons of cream.
- 25. Sprinkle the blue cheese strips over the soup.
- 26. Finally, sprinkle the soup with the cooled pine nuts.
- 27. Serve the soup immediately while hot.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 353
- Protein: 16 g · Fett/Fat: 25 g · Carbs: 16 g