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Zucchini and leek cream recipe
I love preparing creams, soups and purees. Especially in winter to warm up after a cold day. However, I also like to take them cold in summer to cool down.
They are perfect after heavy meals to lighten the body and lower those extra calories. This zucchini and leek cream recipe basically contains leeks, zucchini (as the name indicates) and potatoes. We can also optionally add vegetable broth and cheese or milk cream to give it a little more creaminess.
But if you come from a large meal and want to go on a bit of a diet, I recommend cooking the light version (I'll tell you about it below) without adding the cheese or cream.
I also know that many of you like to use the food processor to speed up kitchen processes and reduce time. For that I also leave you the cream of leeks and zucchini with Thermomix.
You have no excuse! Choose one of the three options and start cooking so that the cream will not prepare itself!
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Ingredients
How to make zucchini and leek cream
- Cut the white part of the leeks into thin slices. We can save the excess part to prepare a broth.
- Peel the potatoes and also cut them into slices.
- In a pot or casserole we put a drizzle of oil and add the leeks. We can also add a pinch of salt
- We leave it on medium heat for 5 minutes.
- Before they brown, remove them from the heat and add the potatoes. The order is important since each vegetable has its own cooking time.
- We leave it on the heat for 5 minutes and stir to prevent the vegetables from sticking.
- While the leeks and potatoes are cooking, we wash the zucchini and cut them into cubes.
- We add the zucchini pieces to the pot and cook everything together while stirring the vegetable mixture.
- Next we add the vegetable broth. If it does not completely cover the vegetables, add water until they are well covered.
- We add a little salt and let it cook for 25-30 minutes.
- Once the vegetables are soft, add the cream or cheese and blend the entire mixture with the blender.
- We serve the leek and zucchini cream. We can add spices to taste or a little Parmesan cheese on top. I also recommend serving with croutons or toast. It's great!
- Now we can enjoy an exquisite and healthy meal!
Light zucchini and leek cream
There is a light variant of the leek and zucchini cream. In the previous recipe, the cheese or cream are adding extra calories to our zucchini soup (although it gives it a very good flavor).
If what we want is to reduce the calories of this dish to have a totally healthy meal then we will have to remove these ingredients.
In addition, we will also have to watch what extra ingredients we add when we serve the cream. For example, you should avoid putting any type of non-fresh cheese, such as Parmesan.
I recommend using spices since they are totally healthy for our body and do not give us extra calories.
Preparation of Thermomix zucchini and leek cream
- Cut the zucchini into large portions. We cut the leeks into large pieces and add them to the glass of the food processor along with a splash of oil. We also pour the zucchini into the glass. We fry in varoma, about 10 minutes at speed 2.
- We cut the potato into medium pieces. We add it to the glass along with the vegetable broth (we can also use chicken broth or water). We cook for 20-25 minutes at 100ºC.
- We add the cheeses or the cream. If we prefer to make a light zucchini and leek cream then we skip this step so as not to add extra calories.
- Blend the mixture for 2 minutes at increasing speed from 5 to 10.
- Once we have the mixture homogeneous, we check that it is not too thick. If so, we can add a little water or broth.
- We splash to taste. We can accompany the dish with parmesan cheese, croutons or fried bread.
- Enjoy our leek and zucchini cream cooked in Thermomix!
Ruben Canadas
I started cosmorecipes in 2020 during the time we were cooped up at home. Having so much free time I spent a lot of time in the kitchen trying different dishes. So I decided to mix cooking with my other great passion: web programming. That's why I decided to open this blog where I post the different recipes that I'm cooking.
