Leek Soup with Ground Beef

By Thom7747

The leek soup with ground beef is a wonderful combination for this German soup. It is a typical winter soup as leek normally is available during the winter months. Try it out, you will love it. This German soup does not need any special ingredients only the cooking cheese. I could not find a neutral cooking cheese so using heavy cream is just fine. In Germany we would use the little triangle cheese from Hochland or Milkana, unfortunately not available in the USA.

Ingredients

• 300 g ground meat (beef or half beef and pork) Hackfleisch
• 1 medium size onion
• 2 tbsp bacon, cubes
• clarified butter for frying
• 2 leeks
• 2 medium size potatoes
• 200 g cooking cheese (Schmelzkäse) or heavy cream
• 2 tbsp sour cream
• 600 ml vegetable broth instant
• salt, pepper, nutmeg to taste

Details

Servings 4
Adapted from mybestgermanrecipes.com

Preparation

Step 1

- peel onion and chop fine.
- melt clarified butter and saute onions with bacon cubes (if bacon has a lot of grease you don’t need any other fat to saute).
add ground meat and brown it. Stirring frequently.
- prepare leek and cut in fine slices, make sure to get out all the sand in between the layers.
- add leek to the meat, fill up with broth.
- peel potatoes and cut in small cubes; add to meat.
- let simmer for about 20 min.
- add cheese or heavy cream and sour cream, spice to taste.

Serve it hot in a soup plate.