Recipe: Appetizing Tattie Soup

Tattie Soup. This Scottish Tattie Soup is very simple, nourishing, filling and cheap as chips to make. I actually grew up in a broth loving house and I don't recall having tattie soup all that much when I was little. This is a traditional Scottish peasant soup, easy to make and made with the most humble and easily obtained ingredients.

This one is not in just good condition, but being a Pathe cylinder record wouldn't ahve soudned all that great originally as their early recording process. An easy, cheap, comforting soup that always makes me think of my mum's. Reheat the soup, if necessary, before serving. You can have Tattie Soup using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Tattie Soup

1. You need 25 g of butter.
2. It's 200 g of lardon (optional).
3. You need 1 tbsp of oil.
4. You need 1 of large leek, finely chopped.
5. Prepare 1 of medium onion, finely chopped.
6. Prepare 2 of large carrot, diced into small pieces.
7. Prepare 3 of large potatoes, peeled and roughly cut into chunks.
8. It's 1.5 liter of chicken or vegetable stock.
9. It's to taste of Salt and pepper.

Pour the soup into serving bowls and then spoon a little mango chutney on to each bowl, and scatter. Every single person in the world who makes tattie soup will have a different recipe/method for making it. I actually grew up in a broth loving house and I don't recall having tattie. Tattie scones are traditionally made with leftover mashed potatoes and served at breakfast, but they're so delicious, they can be eaten anytime.

Tattie Soup step by step

1. Tip the lardon and vegetables in the butter and oil. Give them a stir and season with salt and pepper. Cook cover a low heat for 10-15 minutes or until the veg start to soften a little..
2. Pour in the chicken or vegetable stock, cover and simmer gently for 1 or 1 1/2 hours or until the vegetables are soft and potatoes are starting to break up..
3. Using a potato masher, mash everything up, but not to much as you still want some large tattie lumps. If the soup is too thick for you liking just add some water to thin it down..
4. Check the seasoning and serve with fresh bread or oatcakes..

Vegetables should be soft When cooked, cool slightly then give it a good mashing with a tattie masher (Tattie Droddle, Leek and Tattie Soup). This hearty Scottish soup is made with potatoes that are boiled in milk with leeks or onions. Tattie drottle was known as a staple in the traditional Scottish diet. Read reviews from world's largest community for readers. Let us know what's wrong with this preview of Tattie Soup by Ruth Boshkoff.