This delicious Raw Dairy and Gluten Free Cream of Leek Soup takes only 5 minutes to prep and another 5 or 6 minutes to cook. It uses cashew nuts and a vitamix high speed blender to create the illusion of cream and to warm it without cooking.
‘The best soup I’ve ever had!’ - Praise for our Raw Dairy and Gluten Free Cream of Leek Soup
We are very fortunate that one of our generous neighbours grew more leeks than they could use so we have benefitted from their excess!
Ingredients
500ml filtered water
125g fresh leeks, white stalk only, chopped
175g unsalted cashew nuts
2/3 Kallo organic stock cube
Freshly ground black pepper (20 grinds of hand grinder or to taste)
Pinch of freshly ground nutmeg (2 grinds of hand grinder)
5 g fresh flat leaved parsley (loosely packed half cup)
Method
Put all the ingredients except the parsley into a high speed blender capable of heating to make soup. Set on soup mode or crank gradually up to full speed and blend until hot. Usually 5-8 minutes.
Taste to adjust the seasoning (we added a smidge more of the stock cube - we like things a little salty). Add the fresh parsley and blend on med-high for another 30 seconds.
Serve immediately in warm bowls.
Serves 2-4 depending on how hungry you are!
If like us you have a large Vitamix 2 litre jug you can make 1.5 x the recipe for lunch for 4 people, here are the quantites…
750ml filtered water
190g fresh leeks, white stalk only, chopped
260g unsalted cashew nuts
1 Kallo organic stock cube
Freshly ground black pepper (30 grinds of hand grinder or to taste)
Pinch of freshly ground nutmeg (3 grinds of hand grinder)
7.5 g fresh flat leaved parsley (loosely packed 3/4 cup)
Made this today replacing all of the cashews for hemp seeds for omega 3 health benefits. The soup was still nice, although it tasted more nutty and weirdly a bit eggy! Cashew version still tastes the best to me!
As it’s soup season we have been having lots of cashew cream based soups. To mix it up a bit and vary our diet we replaced half of the cashews with sunflower seeds (soaked in just boiled water for 15 minutes, drained and rinsed). It worked a treat!