Dublin Coddle Soup with Buttermilk Cream & Fage Yoghurt

INGREDIENTS:

Soup

  • 50 g butter
  • 1 medium onion, peeled & roughly chopped
  • 2 leeks, white part only, roughly chopped
  • 2 sticks of celery, roughly chopped
  • salt & freshly ground white pepper
  • 275 ml milk
  • 275 ml cream plus extra to adjust consistency
  • 4 potatoes, peeled & sliced

Coddle Mix

  • 8 Derry Clarke @home sausages
  • 4 slices of bacon, diced
  • 2 potatoes, peeled & evenly diced
  • 1 carrot, peeled & cut in batons
  • ¼ turnip, peeled & evenly diced
  • salt

Garnish

  • 2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
  • 4 tablespoons Fage Yoghurt

METHOD:

Soup:

  1. Melt the butter in a heavy-based saucepan and add the onion, leeks and celery. Season and cook gently until soft (about 20 minutes).
  2. Add the milk and cream and bring to the boil.
  3. Add the potatoes and simmer for about 10 minutes.
  4. Liquidise the soup and pass it through a strainer.
  5. Taste for seasoning and add cream if necessary to adjust the consistency.

Coddle Mix:

  1. Poach the sausages and bacon in a medium-sized saucepan of simmering water until cooked.
  2. In a separate pan blanch the potatoes, carrot and turnip in boiling salted water until tender but still with some bite.

To Serve:

  1. Heat the soup, add the coddle mix and simmer until heated through.
  2. Place in four warm soup bowls.
  3. Garnish with a spoonful of Fage yoghurt and some parsley.