Divya Aunty’s Potato Leek Soup

Ingredients:

• 3 red potatoes
• 1 leek, chopped cross sectionally
• olive oil
• 3-4 garlic cloves
• oregano
• basil
• thyme
• 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper (less if you don’t like spicy)

Instructions:

1. Saute garlic in olive oil
2. Once garlic aroma has started, add red pepper and herbs (can just do dry italian herb mix if easier)
3. Add chopped leeks and keep sauteing until leeks soften a bit
4. Add potato, cubed, mix and let cook with lid on for 3 minutes
5. Add salt, and then keep letting it cook with lid on until potatoes are 3/4 of the way cooked
6. Heat water separately, and then add to pot (can also use vegetable stock instead), and cook until potatoes a desired texture