Spring Onion Soup

After a long day of work, especially at the end of the week we are mostly chosing some easy meal to cook. Let me refrase, we mainly like to take away or order in on those days, but it's still hard to find take out dinners containing enough fresh vegetables to my likings. So tonight we choose the easy cooking:  soup and a salad.

A spring onion soup with a smoked chicken salad 
Lunch or light meal for 2

The salad:
1/2 a cabbage lettuce
10 cherry tomatoes, halved
1 chicken breast, sliced

for the dressing:
1 tbsp, red wine vinegar
1 tsp. mustard
2 tsp. honey
3 tbsp. olive oil

Wash the lettuce thoroughly - I like to wash lettuce at least three time - and tear the leafs into pieces. Whisk up a dressing by first mixing the vinegar with the mustard and the honey and then slowly adding the olive oil while whisking. Mix the dressing with the salad leafs, put them on a plate and cover with the tomatoes and chicken.

The soup:

300 gr potato, cut into small cubes

1 shallot, chopped

4 spring onions, chopped

Knob of butter

1 liter stock

1 tbsp. crème fraiche

Nutmeg

Fry the potato with the shallot and the white parts the spring onions for about 5 minutes in the butter. Add the stock, bring it to a boiling point and simmer for about 15 minutes. Puree it with the crème fraiche and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Garnish with the green parts of the spring onions and ready you are! Served best with some bread and butter (or mayonaise)