Potato cream or potato velouté prepared with milk and without the use of broth and cream, smooth and easy to make, a recipe with few basic ingredients: potatoes, milk, water, and a little butter. You can enrich it with speck or crispy bacon so as to categorize it among the tasty creams, soups, and veloutés perfect for the whole family.
If you don’t have vegetables at home to add to the potatoes for a good velouté, this basic recipe will be perfect to solve the problem, in fact besides making the classic leek cream or the pea and carrot cream with potatoes today you can make a practical and quick recipe, in fact with potato cream with milk you will do everything in a few steps.
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- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Very Cheap
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All Seasons
- Energy 227.71 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 25.70 (g) of which sugars 4.16 (g)
- Proteins 4.77 (g)
- Fat 12.39 (g) of which saturated 2.84 (g)of which unsaturated 9.24 (g)
- Fibers 2.89 (g)
- Sodium 696.42 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 450 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
- 1.1 lbs potatoes
- 1 shallot
- 4.23 cups water
- 1 glass milk
- 4 tbsps olive oil
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
Tools
- Immersion Blender
- Saucepan
Recipe
In a saucepan, sauté a chopped shallot with some oil, then add peeled and chopped potatoes.
Add the water, milk, salt, pepper, and cook for about 20 minutes.
After this time, blend with an immersion mixer and bring to a light boil before serving.
A very simple soup made with only potatoes and milk, ideal for those looking for a velouté to prepare with few ingredients, always available in the pantry.
You can always enjoy it with oven-baked flavored croutons or stale buttered bread placed in each dish and covered with potato cream.
Storage and Tips
Storage: it keeps in the fridge for 1-2 days stored in an airtight container. Before consuming it again, I recommend warming it up.
Tips: you can replace the onion with leek. If the cream is too thick, you can add more milk.
Storage: it keeps in the fridge for 1-2 days stored in an airtight container. Before consuming it again, I recommend warming it up.
Tips: you can replace the onion with leek. If the cream is too thick, you can add more milk.

