Jenny Morris’s smoked paprika potato soup Recipe

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Jenny Morris’s smoked paprika potato soup

"A touch of smoked paprika gives this soup a wonderful lift, and the salty bacon and fresh thyme just brings it all together," says Jenny Morris of this recipe.

Serves: 6-8 people

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil

2 finely sliced leeks

5 crushed cloves of garlic

4 large peeled and thinly sliced potatoes

2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves

¾ teaspoon smoked paprika

800g chopped tinned tomatoes

1 litre chicken stock

Salt and black pepper

1/3 cup roughly chopped celery leaves

1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves

(optional) 1 cup chopped crispy streaky bacon

Method

Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan. Add the leeks, garlic, potato, thyme and smoked paprika, and cook gently until soft, without browning please! Add the tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes. Then add the stock and cook for a further 15 minutes, giving it a good stir every so often.

Season with salt and pepper and cook for 10 minutes more. Then add the chopped celery leaves and extra thyme.

Ladle the soup into bowls, top with crispy bacon and serve with crusty French bread. (Onion bread is also delicious with this soup.)

Tip: Cubes of deep-fried haloumi cheese can be used instead of bacon, or why not use both? If you are using haloumi cheese, soak it for 10 minutes to remove some of the salt, and then drain and dry it very well before you fry it – the cheese crisp on the outside and soft on the inside.