Lindas quick leek soup: theme & variations

A very quick soup, done in less than 20 minutes, if you start the frozen salmon at
the same time as the leeks, or if using fresh salmon, broil during the last 10
minutes of soup cooking. Also use pre-cooked microave hite rice, hich takes
! minutes to cook, or make your on, starting it first before cooking, so it ill be
done hen the soup is ready.
"eeks, chopped and rinsed thoroughly in cold ater
#ed pepper, chopped
$utter % &live &il
'alt
(epper
)hyme *fresh or dried+
$ay leaf *or to+
,inger *fresh, peeled % sliced in big pieces, or podered+
-hicken or .ish 'tock, or -oconut milk
/hite #ice, or )hai #ice 0oodles, cooked
Optional:
"ime, sliced
$asil, fresh, minced *add at end+
-ilantro, minced *add at end+
,arlic, minced or hole *take out at end+
-ayenne pepper
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&nions or shallots, finely minced
-ooked hite potato, diced
-ooked shrimp, diced or hole
$roiled 'almon *frozen or fresh+
-ooked chicken, sliced in small strips
/ood mushrooms
'no peas, or snap peas, de-veined 1 *add only at end after heat turned off+
-ream
'autee leeks in butter % olive oil over medium high heat, ith a little salt, about 2-
3 minutes until soft, but still bright green. Add red pepper, sautee another !-2
minutes. Add chicken stock, black pepper to taste, bay leaf % ginger. -ook over
medium heat until soup starts to boil, then turn don to simmer. 4eanhile, broil
the salmon and heat up the hite rice or cooked thai noodles. )urn off heat
under soup, add cream % fresh herbs % sno peas *optional.+ -over.
(ut rice or noodles in soup bol, then cooked salmon or shrimp, then ladle soup
over it. ,arnish ith fresh cilantro or pickled ginger, and a squeeze of fresh lime5