Creamy and delicious vegan potato leek soup! This hearty and comforting meal is filling, satisfying and will have you coming back for more!
This vegan potato leek soup is everything you want a soup to be!
It’s warming, comforting, hearty, satisfying and oh, soooo delicious!
Now, I’ll admit, leeks are not an ingredient I was extremely familiar with but now that I am…. Well, let’s just say I have been missing out! Leeks are part of the onion family! And who doesn’t love onions?
And potatoes in a soup, well that’s always a winner! I am already a huge fan having made my creamy vegan potato soup that I simply adore!
Potatoes are total comfort food and blending them up in a creamy soup with leeks and onions and spices and garlic and all kinds of good stuff, well you know it’s going to be great!
The Leeks
You can buy your leeks already cleaned up nicely, where they’re already trimmed down so that they’re just the inner white and light green parts, or you can buy the whole leeks where it’s the outer dark green parts as well.
If you buy the whole leeks, be sure to cut all those outer dark green parts and root ends away so that all you’re left with is the white and light green parts. And then those are the parts that you chop up for the soup (as pictured below).
How to make vegan potato leek soup
Add chopped onions and chopped leeks to a pot with crushed garlic and olive oil and sauté until softened. Then add in some spices.
Add chopped potatoes, bay leaves and vegetable stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer until the potatoes are soft and cooked.
Remove from the heat and remove the bay leaves. Add in a can of coconut cream and blend up the soup using an immersion blender.
If you don’t have an immersion blender then transfer to your blender jug in stages, blend until smooth and then gradually return to the pot.
Add sea salt and black pepper to taste (you can be quite liberal with this) and then serve with some fresh chopped chives and a sprinkle of black pepper on top.
What does a vegan potato leek soup taste like?
The flavor of this soup is deliciously mild.
But…that’s also the caveat, the flavor is mild!
Leeks are actually very mild in flavor, and of course potatoes are not strong in flavor. This soup is spiced very nicely, and the outcome is very creamy and delicious, with the bay leaves and the thyme and the rosemary and the coriander powder and the vegetable stock, and of course you serve it with some fresh chopped chives.
But, remember if you are serving yourself a bowl and finding it a little too mild in flavor – don’t be shy with that extra sea salt and black pepper!
Sometimes it’s just a few extra dashes of salt and/or black pepper and it all comes alive.
Traditionally a potato leek soup uses regular cream so we switched that for coconut cream for the vegan version and I really don’t think there is any coconut flavor that results from it. But if you hate coconut then it might be best to switch this for something else.
This vegan potato leek soup makes an excellent appetizer but also main course! If you serve it with some crispy fresh bread and maybe a side salad it can be a very filling main course.
So I really think you will love this vegan potato leek soup! It is:
- Hearty
- Comforting
- Filling
- Creamy
- Delicious!
- Easy
- An Appetizer or Entree!
Leftovers keep very well and can be reheated the next day, so if you’re cooking for less people that’s not a problem at all!
More Vegan Soups!
- Spicy Vegan Carrot Soup
- Vegan Pumpkin Soup
- Vegan Butternut Squash Soup
- Vegan Cream of Mushroom Soup
- Vegan Minestrone Soup
- Vegan Tomato Soup
- Vegan Split Pea Soup
- Vegan Lentil Soup
So what do you think of this vegan potato leek soup? Let us know in the comments! And please rate the recipe too, it’s so helpful! Thank you!
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Vegan Potato Leek Soup
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 4-6
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Creamy and delicious vegan potato leek soup! This hearty and comforting meal is filling, satisfying and will have you coming back for more!
Ingredients
- 1 Onion (Chopped)
- 1 tsp Crushed Garlic
- 1 Tbsp Olive Oil
- 4 Large Leeks (white and light green parts only, chopped)
- 1 tsp Dried Thyme
- 1 tsp Dried Rosemary
- 1/2 tsp Coriander Powder
- 6 Medium Potatoes (~2.2lb/1kg) – peeled and chopped
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 4 Cups (960ml) Vegetable Stock/Broth
- 1 14oz (400ml) Can Coconut Cream
- Sea Salt and Black Pepper (to taste)
- Fresh Chives (Chopped)
Instructions
- Add the chopped onion and leeks to a pot with the crushed garlic and olive oil and sauté until softened. Add in the thyme, rosemary and coriander powder and sauté.
- Add the chopped potatoes, bay leaves and vegetable stock and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover the pot and simmer until the potatoes are soft and cooked.
- Remove from the heat and remove the bay leaves.
- Then add in the coconut cream.
- Blend the soup using an immersion blender for the easiest blending or, if you don’t have an immersion blender, transfer in stages to a blender jug and blend until smooth.
- Add sea salt and black pepper to taste.
- Serve with fresh chopped chives.
Notes
*Recipe inspired by Once Upon A Chef.
- Category: Appetizer, Soup, Gluten-Free
- Cuisine: Vegan
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Serve (of 6)
- Calories: 343
- Sugar: 7.3g
- Sodium: 464mg
- Fat: 16.8g
- Saturated Fat: 12g
- Carbohydrates: 44.2g
- Fiber: 4.8g
- Protein: 6.2g
Keywords: vegan potato leek soup
Absolutely delicious and amazingly easy to fix. This from someone who hates to cook!
Note: Here in Arizona we have Yucca plants that flower in the spring. The flowers are eatable and I pick a five gallon bucket full, wash them and mix them with about a quart of sliced garlic and about a cup of olive oil. I freeze this in 1/4 cup cubes.
I used 2 cubes of this in the soup. EXCELLENT addition!
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing Agnes! 🙂
As always Allison has another winning recipe! I have loved all of them that I have tried! She is one of my favorite Vegan/Chef resources for awesome vegan recipes. I substituted potato flakes to add to the soup as I did not have whole potatoes on hand. It turned out delicious!
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Thank you so much Susan! xo
Fantastic soup. I used golden potatoes. I did not add the coconut milk. I put the soup in my Vitamix, ( did not mix it all the soup , about 80%, as I like the texture j. I added some fresh lemon juice and pepper when I served it up. This recipe is a keeper.
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Glad you enjoyed it Lori! Thank for the great review. 🙂
So easy and amazing flavor! I used a can of coconut milk instead of cream since that’s what I had in my pantry, and I wanted to use up some celery so I added that with the leeks and onions. I think leaving the skin on the potatoes would also add a nice texture for people that prefer a chunkier soup.
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Awesome! Thanks so much Katherine. 🙂
I loved how nice, thick and creamy it was and how it goes sooo well with extra vegan sausage oooh it just felt so nice and warm in my mouth, super satisfying. Thanks For the Recipe. XO
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So glad you enjoyed it Stacy! Thanks for the excellent rating! 🙂
This soup is outta this world yummy.. thanks for the recipe, second time making it.. with fresh bread too, yum!
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Yay! Thanks for the wonderful rating April! 🙂
A favorite recipe! I also like to add ground vegan sausage to my bowl of soup. It taste like the zuppa Toscana soup from that famous Italian chain!
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Sounds great! Thanks for sharing and the awesome review Jennifer! 🙂
I made this soup today. I like texture in my soup, so I used a potato masher rather than blender before adding the coconut cream. I think the coconut tastes a little soapy, so I’d try with soy or oat cream next time, but it’s a great recipe. Good job!
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Thanks Laura! 🙂
Deffo 5 star. So lush. I also used coconut evap milk. But still very creamy.thanks for a super.super soup. So filling. Love it.xx
Thanks so much Ray! 🙂
Delicious and creamy! Aside from the listed ingredients I used some shallots as I was almost out of onion. I left if just a little chunky for my preference. I just found out it’s quite good with curry madras powder sprinkled on top.
Easy and so satisfying!
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Glad you enjoyed it Kate! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Delicious and so creamy ❤️
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Yay! Thanks Bernadine. xo
Lovely and so easy – thank you!
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Awesome! Thanks for the wonderful rating Yvonne! 🙂