Simple Tattie Soup
Description
This is so basic it hardly constitutes a 'recipe'! It is very simple and fairly bland - children love it.
Ingredients
- Onions (1 or 2), chopped
- A little sunflower oil
- Potatoes (2 lb/1 kilo/6 cups), cut into chunks
- Carrots (about 1 lb/450g/3 cups), cut into chunks
- Turnip (8oz/200g/1 cup) - optional
- Kale (or dark green cabbage) chopped
- Garlic to taste, chopped
- Herbs of your choice, fresh or dried (we tend to use sage)
- Sea salt to taste
Method
- Fry the onion in the sunflower oil for a few minutes to seal the flavour then place all the other ingredients except the kale or cabbage in a pan and cover with water.
- Bring to the boil and simmer until the vegetables are cooked (15- 20 minutes).
- Add the green vegetables 5 - 10 minutes before cooking is finished to prevent them being over-cooked.
- Mash well.
- The quantities given make quite a large pan of soup - we eat half one day and store the rest in the fridge until the next day - you may wish to change the quantities to suit your needs.