Today we start our new recipe column where Oxford’s top chefs help you replicate their favourite dishes from your own homes.
Our first recipe is from James Durrant, the head chef at The Thatch in Thame, who is still energetically cooking at home while The Thatch is closed.
His first recipe is cheap and healthy. You can find wild garlic in your hedgerows while out exercising. If not you can use leeks instead of garlic, or alternate with rocket, spinach, watercress, or just 8 cloves of garlic and one whole bunch of parsley stalk.
JAMES DURRANT’S WILD GARLIC AND POTATO SOUP
Ingredients
- 2 x large potatoes
- 200g x wild garlic
- 20g x parsley
- 30g x butter
- 1 x white onion
- 3 x garlic clove
- 1 x chicken/veg stock cube
- 3 Litres of water
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
*Sweat off the garlic and onion in the butter and cook until soft
Peel and dice the potato (roughly size of a dice) add to the pan and season as you go
Boil the kettle and dissolve the stock cube in 3L of water – add to the pan
Bring to the boil and simmer until potato is cooked through
Pick and wash the wild garlic and parsley
Take the pan off the heat, add the parsley and garlic, give it a stir and blitz straight away (being careful as the soup may burst out the top of the blender if it’s too hot)
Blitz until smooth and check seasoning
Garnish with goats cheese and chilli oil if you have it (as seen in pic)
Eat
https://www.thethatchthame.co.uk The Thatch is currently closed
