Soups
Easy Creamy Vegan Potato Leek Soup
Prep
10 minutes
Cook
40 minutes
Yield
4
Simple, 40 minute Vegan Potato Leek Soup. Infused with beautiful coriander, oregano and coconut milk. It is the perfect soup to keep you warm and comforted.
I don’t know about you, but I am craving soup all the time recently. This cold weather makes me want to curl up on the couch with a bowl of something hearty. Rich flavours that you can only find in something like this classic Potato Leek Soup.
Nothing says comfort food more than a big bowl of creamy soup. This healthy, simple and classic Vegan Potato Leek Soup was exactly what we all need to keep warm and has the perfect creaminess (without using cream) as I sit next to the fireplace while I work on and finalize some of my other recipes!
❤️ Why You’ll Love Vegan Potato Leek Soup
- Rich & Creamy: The best part about Potato Leek Soup is how creamy and rich it is but all while being healthy
- Comforting: Is anything more comforting than a big bowl of steaming hot soup on a cold day?
- Plant-Based: This recipe is made vegan making it perfect for those on a plant-based diet
🍲 Ingredients
Nutritional Yeast – This is an essential ingredients in many plant-based kitchens. It’s rich in nutrients that often are lacking in the diets of those that eat vegetarian or vegan. It can be a fantastic way to add a cheese-like flavor to a plant-based dish
White Miso – Miso is made from fermented soybeans and rice or barley. White miso can be known as shiro miso and it is fermented for a shorter time than red miso. It has a mild, sweet flavor.
👩🍳 How to Make Vegan Potato Leek Soup
- Into a large pot, over medium heat add your olive oil and cook for 30 seconds. To the pot, add your leeks, onion and celery. Cook them for 5-10 minutes or until golden.
- To the pot, add your potatoes and stir the ingredients till well combined. Cook for another 10 minutes, on medium heat. Now add the salt, pepper, white miso and nutritional yeast. Cook down for 2 minutes, stirring to combine all the ingredients.
- Increase your heat to high, add your stock and bring to a boil before simmering for 15-20 minutes or until your potatoes are cooked throughout.
- Add your coconut milk and stir. Cook for another minute before turning off the heat and transferring the mixture into your high speed blender.
- Blend till smooth but still light texture.
- Garnish with fresh oregano, olive oil, pepper and fresh lime!
🪄 Tips and Tricks
- The soup can be enjoyed unblended, half blended or completely blended. All the options are great
- Prep this soup in advance on Sunday and have an easy, healthy meal to grab and heat up during the week
🗒 Other Soup Recipes to Try
- Simple Carrot Soup
- Vegetable Orzo Soup
- The Detox Kale + Cauliflower Soup
- Vegan Broccoli Cheese Soup
- Creamy Vegan Greek Lemon Rice Soup
👝 How to Store Leftovers
Store leftovers in the fridge for up to 1-week. You can also freeze leftovers for up to 4-months. Thaw and reheat when ready to consume.
🤔 Common Questions
Leeks taste like a mild, sweet onion but with a twist. Leeks are so delicious to use in soups, pasta dishes, pot pies, and so much more.
In the Asian food section, or in the refrigerated section.
Easy Vegan Potato Leek Soup
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp EVOO
- 2 large leek stalks washed and chopped (discard the green bit of the leek, compost)
- 1 large white onion chopped
- 2 celery stalks chopped
- 1.5 lbs. white baby potatoes halved
- 1 tsp pink sea salt
- 1/2 tsp fresh cracked pepper
- 1 tbsp. white miso
- 1 tbsp. nutritional yeast
- 900 ml vegetable stock unsalted – homemade if you can
- 1 400 mL can of coconut milk
- season to taste
- garnish with more fresh oregano and fresh lime juice
Instructions
- Into a large pot, over medium heat add your olive oil and cook for 30 seconds. To the pot, add your leeks, onion and celery. Cook them for 5-10 minutes or until golden.
- To the pot, add your potatoes and stir the ingredients till well combined. Cook for another 10 minutes, on medium heat. Now add the salt, pepper, white miso and nutritional yeast. Cook down for 2 minutes, stirring to combine all the ingredients.
- Increase your heat to high, add your stock and bring to a boil before simmering for 15-20 minutes or until your potatoes are cooked throughout.
- Add your coconut milk and stir. Cook for another minute before turning off the heat and transferring the mixture into your high speed blender.
- Blend till smooth but still light texture.
- Garnish with fresh oregano, olive oil, pepper and fresh lime!
I absolutely love this soup. Super easy and extremely tasty. To be honest it is one of the very best soups I‘ve ever made. And woah I‘ll do it again very soon.
YES!! Thank you so much for the love, Jacqueline! So glad to hear you love this soup as much as we do!
Yum!!!!! Today was cold and snowy and so tonight was perfect for soup and this recipe did not disappoint. Even my husband who isn’t usually a big soup fan had seconds! So much flavour!
Thank you so much for the love on this, Ella! Makes me so happy it was even husband-approved!
THIS SOUP!!! It was so delicious and flavourful, after I made it I woke up the next morning craving it for breakfast. And it’s just as good reheated. I will be making this all winter, every winter.
Oh, this makes me so happy! Thank you for the love, Jessie!
Ok let’s be honest, no soup will never beat the Food by Maria “lentils soup” (yes the one from the book that I make at least once a week), but this potatoes and leak soup is just delicious and oh god so easy to make! I do not have white miso I made it without it and I do not know what I am missing but this no miso version is absolutely amazing. This has become one of my classic, it yummy, it’s nourrishing, and it’s fast to make, what more could we ask for?!
Thank you so much for the love sweetie, I am so grateful you love this recipe!
So simple, creamy and flavourful! This will be a regular in my soup rotation.
Hey Haley!!! Thanks so much for the love, we are so pumped you love this recipe as much as we do!
WOWZA!! This has got to be THE BEST soup I have ever tasted. Super quick and easy to make with simple ingredients. Perfect for cold winter nights!
Hey girl, hey!!! Thanks so much for the love, so glad you loved this soup as much as we do! Let me know what you make next. xx
This soup is so creamy and amazing!! I haven’t ventured too much into vegan cooking but I try to eat more plant based as much as possible and this recipe didn’t disappoint. Looking forward to leftovers this week and will be making again 🙂
This makes me so happy Vicky! If you’re looking for another recipe to make that is plant-forward for your family… you have to make the meat sauce. It’s soo good!
This was amazing. Sadly I like it waaaay better before I added the coconut milk. Making this again without the coconut milk
If you’re not a fan of coconut milk then I would totally suggest that! Glad you enjoyed the soup!!!
Easy to make and oh so tasty!
Thank you so much, Monica!!
This soup is pure GOLD!! Don’t hesitate and make it today! Vegan or not you will not be disappointed, the total opposite and thoroughly satisfied with this creamy hearty bowl of greatness! My Grandma had a taste, nearly fainted with its overwhelming tastiness then said that is the greatest thing I’ve ever had in my mouth 😂 I did add a little lemon zest and juice full discourse but truly Maria hit the nail on the head with this one! I thank you!!
YESS!! So glad your grandma loved it this much girl!!!!!!
Hi Maria! What kind of coconut milk is used in this soup? I never know what recipes mean by coconut milk, do they mean the carton coconut milk thats like almond milk, or canned coconut milk? and is it light/heavy?, what percentage of fat coconut milk, etc? Thanks so much!
Hi Ana! I usually use the canned coconut milk from the grocery store. Shouldn’t matter the fat level but I find the canned stuff to be thicker than the stuff you buy in the carton 🙂
Amazing for those cold evenings! Fast, healthy, savory.
Yess!! So glad you loved this one Abbey!!!
OMG, I could only wish for freezing! It’s 43C (110F) here today. Do like soup though. Might try this ne when it’s cooler though!
Such a great, easy vegan soup to make for a weeknight meal. I skipped the last step and kept it chunky – so delicious and filling!
YESSS!! Chunky for life!!!! I love this soup all ways but there’s really something to be said about chunky! Thanks for the love xx
I wasn’t expecting to love this recipe, but WOW! The perfect way to use our home grown leeks. Highly recommend adding the hit of lime to pull all the flavors together.
YESS!! this makes me so happy, thank you for the love, Alberta!