Potatoes, Asparagus and Parmesan Soup

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By Ronna Welsh

This soup, with its juxtaposition of brushed leeks and tender-crisp asparagus, is agleam and rich, and hearty but not heavy. The ginger-garlic-miso paste, on with loads of parmesan, bash the dense lifting to alteration plain h2o into a delicious broth. A quick-to-make mustard effect food is swirled into the crockery close earlier serving.

A fewer tips for making the soup: Salt the chopped asparagus portion the crockery cooks truthful it’s primed to sorb the blistery broth erstwhile added. Cutting the asparagus connected the diagonal exposes much aboveground country to the salt. You’ll bash a spot of grating for the soup, but don’t fuss to cleanable your grater betwixt ingredients. It each goes successful the aforesaid pot.

From Ronna Welsh, cookbook writer and laminitis of Brooklyn-based Purple Kale Kitchenworks.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4 (makes scant 8 cups)

For the mustard effect butter

2 tablespoons unsalted butter
Pinch good salt
2 teaspoons brownish mustard seeds

For the soup

4 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 teaspoons grated caller ginger
4 teaspoons minced oregon finely grated garlic
1 tablespoonful yellowish miso
1/2 cupful crisp achromatic wine, specified arsenic vinho verde oregon sauvignon blanc
1 ample leek (14 ounces), achromatic and airy greenish parts only, washed good and chopped into 1/2-inch pieces (about 2 cups)
1 1/2 pounds tiny caller potatoes, quartered
4 cups water
1 1/4 teaspoons good salt, divided
8 ounces asparagus, trimmed and sliced connected the diagonal into 1/4-inch pieces (1/8-inch if the stalks are thick)
3/4 cupful (1 1/2 ounces) grated parmesan cheese
Lemon wedges, for serving
1/4 cupful chopped caller mixed tender herbs, specified arsenic parsley, cilantro, tarragon and dill, for serving

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (2 cups)

Calories
272
Fat
4 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
45 g
Sodium
958 mg
Cholesterol
10 mg
Protein
10 g
Fiber
7 g
Sugar
7 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Ronna Welsh, cookbook writer and laminitis of Brooklyn-based Purple Kale Kitchenworks.

Tested by Ann Maloney.

Published May 24, 2023

Updated March 17, 2026