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Country-Style Soup - {Garbure}

Cuisine: French
Courses: Soup
Serves: 6 people

Recipe Ingredients

3 tablespoons 45mlButter
2 tablespoons 30mlCarrots - sliced (medium)
3   Leeks, white part only - cut 1" long pieces
2 cups 292g / 10ozChopped cabbage
2   Celery stalks - cut 1" long pieces
1 teaspoon 5mlSalt
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlGranulated sugar
4 cups 948mlWater
3 cups 711mlConsomme
1 cup 160g / 5.6ozCooked dried navy beans
  (or white beans)
2   Potatoes - sliced (medium)
3 tablespoons 45mlGreen peas
6   French bread - fried in butter
  Grated Swiss cheese

Recipe Instructions

In large, heavy saucepan, combine butter, carrots, leeks, cabbage, celery, salt, and sugar. Cover and cook over a low flame for 30 minutes. Add water and consomme. Bring to boil. Add beans, potatoes, and peas. Cover. Simmer for 45 minutes. Remove vegetables and mash them. Place mashed vegetable mixture in tureen. Stir liquid in pan into mixture. Correct seasoning to taste. Serve with slices of fried French bread and grated Swiss cheese.

Source:
THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING by Fernande Garvin - Published by Bantam Books, Inc. (c) 1958

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