Best 8 Vichyssoise With Aioli Recipes

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Vichyssoise, a classic French soup, is a creamy and comforting dish that is perfect for a chilly day. Made with leeks, potatoes, onions, and chicken stock, it is simple to prepare and can be served hot or cold. This article presents two variations of vichyssoise: a traditional version and a modern version with aioli.

The traditional vichyssoise recipe uses heavy cream to achieve its signature velvety texture. The modern version, however, uses Greek yogurt instead of heavy cream, creating a lighter and healthier alternative. Both versions are equally delicious and offer a unique take on this timeless soup.

In addition to the two main recipes, this article also includes a recipe for homemade aioli, a garlicky mayonnaise that is the perfect accompaniment to vichyssoise. Aioli can also be used as a dipping sauce for vegetables, seafood, or grilled meats.

Whether you are looking for a classic comfort food or a lighter and healthier option, this article has the perfect vichyssoise recipe for you.

Check out the recipes below so you can choose the best recipe for yourself!

VICHYSSOISE



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Vichyssoise is a creamy and smooth soup made from potatoes and leeks. Traditionally served chilled, it can be enjoyed hot too if the season calls for a warming soup instead. Serve it as the first course in an elegant luncheon or as your main meal with a green salad on the side.

Provided by Riley Wofford

Categories     Food & Cooking     Soups, Stews & Stocks     Soup Recipes

Time 1h10m

Yield Serves 8 to 10

Number Of Ingredients 9

4 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 pounds leeks (8 to 10 medium), white and light green parts sliced
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 pounds russet potatoes (3 to 4 medium), peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
4 cups low-sodium chicken broth, plus more as needed
1 1/2 cups heavy cream, plus more for serving
1 cup whole milk
Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
Chopped fresh chives, for serving

Steps:

  • Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium-low heat; add leeks and season with salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until leeks are very soft, 8 to 10 minutes. Stir in potatoes, broth, and 1 cup water; season with salt. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are very tender, 20 to 25 minutes.
  • Working in batches, transfer mixture to a blender and purée until smooth, adding more liquid as needed. Transfer to a large bowl; whisk in 1 cup cream, milk, and nutmeg; season with salt.
  • Cover and refrigerate until cold, at least 4 hours and up to 2 days. Stir in remaining 1/2 cup cream, then ladle into bowls and serve drizzled with more cream. Sprinkle with chives and pepper before serving.

CLASSIC VICHYSSOISE



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Very simple recipe that tastes great. What could be better? Serve cold or warm.

Provided by 2doulas

Categories     Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes     Soup Recipes     Vegetable Soup Recipes

Yield 4

Number Of Ingredients 10

1 tablespoon butter
3 leeks, bulb only, sliced into rings
1 onion, sliced
5 potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
salt and pepper to taste
¼ teaspoon dried thyme
½ teaspoon dried marjoram
1 bay leaf
5 cups chicken broth
¼ cup heavy whipping cream

Steps:

  • In a large stock pot melt butter over low heat. Add leeks and onion, cover, and cook for 10 minutes.
  • Add potatoes and season with salt and pepper. Add thyme, marjoram, bay leaf and stir well. Cover pot and continue to cook for 12 minutes.
  • Add chicken stock and bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook, partially covered for 30 minutes.
  • Puree soup in blender or food processor and cool.
  • Prior to serving add cream. If you are serving this soup warm you need to reheat the soup slowly so that the cream does not change consistency.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 334.1 calories, Carbohydrate 59.1 g, Cholesterol 28 mg, Fat 8.9 g, Fiber 7.6 g, Protein 7 g, SaturatedFat 5.4 g, Sodium 56.6 mg, Sugar 5.9 g

ZUCCHINI VICHYSSOISE



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Provided by Ina Garten

Categories     main-dish

Time 55m

Yield 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 10

1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 tablespoon good olive oil
5 cups chopped leeks, white and light green parts (4 to 8 leeks)
4 cups chopped unpeeled white boiling potatoes (8 small)
3 cups chopped zucchini (2 zucchini)
1 1/2 quarts Homemade Chicken Stock, recipe follows, or canned broth
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons heavy cream
Fresh chives or julienned zucchini, for garnish

Steps:

  • Heat the butter and oil in a large stockpot, add the leeks, and saute over medium-low heat for 5 minutes. Add the potatoes, zucchini, chicken stock, salt, and pepper; bring to a boil; then lower the heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Cool for a few minutes and then process through a food mill fitted with the medium disc. Add the cream and season to taste. Serve either cold or hot, garnished with chopped chives and/or zucchini.

ITALIAN VICHYSSOISE



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Provided by Giada De Laurentiis

Time 2h17m

Yield 4 (1-cup servings)

Number Of Ingredients 13

3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 large or 4 small shallots, thinly sliced
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt, plus extra for seasoning
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus extra for seasoning
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 1/2 pounds (about 2 medium) russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 3/4-inch pieces
3 cups low-sodium chicken broth
1 cup arugula
1/2 cup mascarpone, at room temperature
2 (1/2-inch thick) slices sourdough or multi-grain bread, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
8 cherry or grape tomatoes, quartered

Steps:

  • For the soup: In a large saucepan or Dutch oven, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the shallots and season with a pinch of salt and pepper. Cook, stirring frequently, until tender, about 3 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until aromatic, about 30 seconds. Add the potatoes, chicken broth, and arugula. Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover, and simmer until the potatoes are very tender, about 15 minutes. In batches, ladle the mixture into a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Return the soup to the saucepan and whisk in the cheese, 3/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Let the soup cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour until ready to serve. Before serving, adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper, to taste.
  • For the croutons: Place an oven rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
  • In a small bowl, toss together the bread, oil, and salt until coated. Spread in a single layer on a small baking sheet. Bake until golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes.
  • To serve: Ladle the soup into small bowls. Garnish with croutons and cherry tomatoes.

VICHYSSOISE



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Provided by Food Network

Categories     appetizer

Time 1h30m

Yield 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 8

4 leeks, sliced and washed
4 potatoes, peeled and sliced or chopped
2 celery stalks, thinly sliced
1 onion or 3 shallots, sliced
Mineral water, such as Vichy
Salt and freshly ground pepper
1/4 cup/60 ml heavy cream or milk, plus more if needed
Chopped fresh chives, for garnish

Steps:

  • Put the leeks, potatoes, celery and onions in a pot. Add mineral water to cover and season with salt and pepper. Cover, bring to a boil and simmer until very tender. Puree and strain into a glass bowl. Thin with the cream, and with more liquid if needed. Let cool, then chill.
  • Before serving, thin the soup to the desired consistency with more water or milk. (You can also use chicken stock, but if you're trying to be vegetarian, then obviously don't.) Check the seasonings. Serve sprinkled with chives.

VICHYSSOISE



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Provided by Alton Brown

Categories     appetizer

Time 1h25m

Yield serves up to 12 as an opening course, 6 as a main course

Number Of Ingredients 10

2 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 medium or 3 large leeks, white and light green parts only, split down the middle and cut into thin half-moons
1/4 cup fresh celery leaves, picked but not chopped
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 1/2 pounds potatoes (a mixture of russets and white or all russets), peeled, diced small and held in cold water until ready to cook
2 cups chicken broth, homemade if possible, brought to a simmer
3 cups heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground (fine) white pepper
Salmon roe, for garnish
Dill fronds, for garnish

Steps:

  • Melt the butter in the pressure cooker pot over medium-low heat. Add the leeks, celery leaves and 1 teaspoon of the salt and cook, stirring often, until soft, approximately 8 minutes. If the leeks start to brown during this process, reduce the heat.
  • Drain the potato pieces and add to the pot along with the simmering chicken broth. Clamp on the cooker's lid, (according to the manufacturer's instructions) and bring to full pressure over high heat.
  • Once pressure is attained (there will be a loud whistle) back the heat down to medium-low, just maintaining a hissing of steam for 8 minutes.
  • Kill the heat and release the steam pressure by opening the dump valve or setting the cooker under cold, running water. When the lid can be removed, carefully transfer the mixture to a blender carafe. (If the mixture fills your carafe more than two-thirds full, work in two batches!)
  • Top the carafe with the main lid but remove the center lid so that air can escape as it heats and expands. Cover the lid tightly with a tea towel and blend on low for 1 minute before slowly increasing the speed to smoothly puree the potatoes. (Although you want to increase the speed slowly, try not to puree the potatoes too long as they could become gummy.)
  • Transfer the mixture back to the pot and whisk in the cream. Stir in the white pepper. Taste and adjust the seasoning (I always need the rest of the salt). Chill thoroughly then serve garnished with a small spoonful of the roe and dill fronds.
  • Tightly covered, the vichyssoise will keep a week in the refrigerator. The soup can also be frozen in ice-cube trays then kept in freezer bags for up to three months.

VICHYSSOISE



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This is a simple take on a classic cold soup that is as delicious to eat as it is to say: Vishi-swazz! It is dead easy to make as well. Just sauté potatoes with some chopped leeks, then simmer them all with stock until tender. Send the mixture through a food processor or blender, let cool, then chill in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Garnish with chopped chives.

Provided by Mark Bittman

Categories     soups and stews

Time 30m

Number Of Ingredients 6

2 tablespoons butter in a large pot
3 peeled and cubed potatoes
3 trimmed and chopped leeks
4 cups stock
Chopped chives
1/2 cup or more cream

Steps:

  • Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large pot.
  • Add 3 peeled and cubed potatoes and 3 trimmed and chopped leeks.
  • Cook for about 3 minutes, stirring, until softened.
  • Add 4 cups stock. Boil, cover, lower the heat and simmer until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes.
  • Purée, then let cool. Stir in 1/2 cup or more cream before serving.
  • Garnish with chopped chives.

VICHYSSOISE



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This chilled velouté is made with humble ingredients, but with a little technique, the leeks, potato, and silky crème fraîche come together for a bowl of pure luxury. Though its namesake is the spa town of Vichy, France, the cold version of this potato soup was invented at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City.

Provided by Daniel Boulud

Categories     main-dish

Time 1h50m

Yield 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 13

2 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 leeks, white parts only, trimmed and cleaned
1 rib celery
Sea salt
2 large Idaho potatoes, peeled
1 1/2 quarts chicken stock
1 sprig thyme
1 sprig parsley
1 bay leaf
2 cloves garlic
2/3 cup crème fraîche, plus more for garnish
Ice cubes
Chives, for garnish

Steps:

  • Melt butter in a stockpot over medium heat. In a second stockpot over low heat, warm the chicken stock. Meanwhile, slice the white parts of the leeks in half lengthwise; then thinly slice. Trim and thinly slice celery. Add leeks and celery to the melted butter; gently sweat until translucent, 7-8 minutes, adding a pinch of salt halfway through. Make sure the vegetables do not take on any color.Meanwhile, slice potatoes lengthwise into 4 wedges, then roughly dice into 1-inch chunks. When the leeks and celery are translucent, add warmed stock, followed by the potatoes.
  • Make a sachet: Lay a square of cheesecloth large enough to fit the herbs on a flat surface. Place thyme, parsley, bay leaf, and garlic in the middle; then wrap into a bundle and tie with butcher's twine. Submerge the sachet in the soup and simmer, uncovered, until potatoes are soft, 15-20 minutes.
  • When a fork easily pierces a potato, the soup is ready to be blended. First, remove the sachet. Then use a ladle to remove 1½ cups of broth; set aside. Carefully add the rest of the soup to a blender and cover. Blend, beginning on low speed, then slowly increasing to high speed. When the soup is pale and completely puréed, turn off the blender and add crème fraîche. Cover and continue blending on high speed to a light, smooth texture. Test the thickness, then add some of the reserved broth as necessary to thin the soup, and blend again. Set aside the remaining broth.
  • Strain the soup (optional): In a large bowl filled with ice, chill a second bowl large enough to hold the soup. Strain the soup through a chinois or fine-mesh strainer into the chilled bowl; use the back of a ladle to help push the soup through the strainer. The vichyssoise will have a syrupy texture when it's warm, but it will become thicker and more velvety as it chills in the bowl. Let cool for 1 hour.
  • When the vichyssoise is chilled, strain more reserved broth into the soup as needed to thin to desired consistency; stir well to combine. Ladle into a bowl. Shape quenelles of crème fraîche (optional): Pass about a tablespoon of crème fraîche back and forth between two spoons, smoothing and shaping it until you have formed an egg-shaped dollop, or "quenelle." Garnish each bowl with a quenelle of crème fraîche and several chive batons before serving.

Tips:

  • Use high-quality ingredients for the best flavor. Fresh, seasonal vegetables are always a good choice.
  • Don't overcrowd the pot when cooking the vegetables. This will prevent them from cooking evenly.
  • Use a blender or food processor to puree the soup until it is smooth and creamy.
  • Season the soup to taste with salt, pepper, and other spices.
  • Serve the soup hot or cold, depending on your preference.
  • Garnish the soup with fresh herbs, croutons, or a swirl of cream.

Conclusion:

Vichyssoise is a classic French soup that is perfect for any occasion. It is light and flavorful, and can be served hot or cold. With its simple ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions, this recipe is sure to become a favorite in your kitchen. So next time you're looking for a delicious and elegant soup to serve, give vichyssoise a try.

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