Top 10 Leek Recipes
- Tommy Davis
If you like onions but don’t like its smell, then leek is best for you because it is almost the same in feature as onions; rather tastier than onion. It is a vegetable that grown in any soil, however not like onions and other below soil vegetables it grows at the surface level. Leek is sweeter and subtle than onion and garlic, though it almost resembles their look and flavor as if they are cousins. Leek is not that brashly assertive as their allium cousins. There are tons of approaches available to make finger licking leek’s dish, as a support dish or center of the party, leek can play all the roles.
With its diverse quality, anyone can use it to make their dish better than before. From winter soup and broth to summer hot pork belly, whatever you make, leek will never disappoint you. You can combine anything to make a leek dish, because of its sweet flavor and crunchiness. Get a view of the ten best leek recipe that we will show you, and then decide which one you want to make for your family reunion or friends gathering. We will make your leek recipe arsenal bigger than you thought and show you how to cook leeks.
How to Cook Leeks?
Let’s learn how to cook leeks first. It’s very simple to follow a leek recipe and make a lovely leek dish. Leek is a tender vegetable. Therefore, it doesn’t need too much heat or cooking. First, take one pound of cut leeks and cover it to give it a healthy sauté for three to four minutes. Switch to medium-low heat and add some broth, not more than two tablespoons. Let the leek there for three more minutes for another sauté session. Add salt black pepper then stir it with a soft hand. Last part is giving some vinegar to it, and lemon juice to make it tastier. That’s how you can cook leeks before mixing with any other dish. However, you can cook leeks with other ingredients by following the same steps.
Ingredients or Food Items
We will show you a list of ingredients before giving you full packed healthy leek recipes, though you can add anything to combine a good leak dish because when you put leeks to a special curry or soup or fry, it automatically gets better. Most commonly used ingredients are
- Blue cheese
- Almonds
- Potato
- Pork belly
- Ginger
- Soba
- Mushroom
- Chicken & Cauliflower
- Clam & Oyster
- Pork
- Rice
- Goat cheese
- Duck
Sopa DE Poro Y Papa (Mexican Potato and Leek Soup)
Sopa de poro is a traditional creamy soup, famous in Mexico City. You can make this whole month of the year because you can serve it hot and chilled in both ways. In summer, they serve it chilled, and in the winter, you can have a hot bowl of Sopa de poro with lots of add-ons. If you have unsalted butter, chicken stalk, kosher salt, black pepper, potato, olive oil and freshly cut leeks, can quickly make a fresh potato leek soup. There are many healthy leek recipes, but this one is unique.
Swiss Cheese Soup
By its name, you already knew that it is from Swedish cuisine. This one is also a traditional dish from this land of snow. They have it all year around without complaining. It has become their household as the mountain of the Alps. Best produced cheese from Switzerland, unsalted butter, leeks, vegetables broth, salt and black pepper, that’s all it takes to create this Swiss delicacy.
Braised Pork Belly with Leeks and Ginger
Unique sweet rice distilled, named Awamori is used to make this dish. This distilled liquid gives a soft coating over pork belly pieces and creates a sticky combination of pork and leeks. You can use fresh brown sugar instead of Awamori if you don’t have the ingredient.
Chicken with Cauliflower and Leeks with Redwine Sauce
Chicken is always everyone’s favorite, and if you make a fusion, chicken with leeks, cauliflower and red wine, it already sounds delicious. I don’t know about other chicken leek recipes, but this one is an art piece for food freak like you and me. You can use a high-end meat grinder to make slick pieces of chicken to break the traditional square piece of meat. This kind of chicken and leek recipes can give vivid aurora to any dull scenario and create a festive mood within minutes.
Cold Soba with Mushroom and Leek Seiro Broth
This recipe is different from traditional noodle or classic broth, though both are present in this dish. You have to dip your freshly made rice noodle into leek’s broth to create the foodie illusion, and then slurp until tiny droplets remain in the bowl.
Clam, Oyster and Mushroom Foil Yaki
Clams, leeks, oyster, and mushroom all are there, what else you need to create a heavenly delicacy. Just mix all those and marinate with spices for a while then wrap it with a foil and give it to the oven. That’s all, now taste your delight with family and friends.
Mustard Turd
Only using two kinds of mustard seed and lots of vegetables you can quickly make this Mustard turn on your own. They are also lighter than traditional mustard turds.
Cream of Fennel Soup
Lots of cream and bunch of fennels with the touch of leeks, that’s how you make a creamy fennel soup. Use fresh cream and verity of spices then add a little bit of pernod if you want to but don’t forget to use leeks, after all, that’s the bit that will make this soup enjoyable.
Leak Bread Puddin
If you like leeks, and if you want bread, you can have both of them in pudding, how about that? This recipe combined the soft feel of a piece of bread and crunchy and sweet-sour taste of leeks. Cream soaked bread toasted in golden brown color with crunchy leek toppings can be your perfect morning breakfast.
Roasted Leek
Coarse salt and black pepper perfect seasoning your leeks before roasting then on mild fire. You can use butter or virgin olive oil; it depends on your demand. Bunch of roasted leek recipes is roaming around the internet and in other cookbooks. However, I think this one is better for fresh leeks serving.
Leek is healthy and tasty, which is a superb combination that is hard to find in a vegetable. Children usually dislike vegetables. You can find no one who hates leeks. It’s also a sweetheart to the vegans, who don’t like onions, because of its taste and aroma. You can learn any of these recipes and make a healthy leek item for your folks and friends.
