Slow cooker Leek, Celery and Potato soup batch

This is so scrummy and comforting, specially with a hunk of bread, or better still, garlic ciabatta!

Leek, celery & potato slow cooker soup

This is so quick to prepare and yet the results are the tastiest soup imaginable.  There's no hard and fast rule when it comes to quantities so chuck in what you've got and let the slow cooker work it's magic.

I used.

• 3 small leftover leeks
• 4 sticks of celery
• 1 tsp of fresh thyme from my garden
• 1 tsp parsley from my garden
• a good grinding of black pepper (salt to taste after cooking)
• 2 litres of water into which I dissolved 1 basics chicken stock cube
• 1 tbsp of chopped onion
• 1 tsp chopped garlic (roughly one large clove)
• 1 tin of basics potatoes (at 20p you can't beat it for cost or speed as they are already cooked)

Method:

No need to cut into prissy little bits, I just hunked the veg and chucked it into the slow cooker on the high setting.

After about three hours you can add your potatoes, one hour later blitz with a hand held blender in the crock pot to your favourite consistency then leave to rewarm for around another hour, check seasoning and consume with a swirl of cream if you're feeling decadent.

I always make a large batch so that I have some in the freezer for lunches during the coming weeks.  This batch yielded 9 servings.