Vichyssoise Soup Recipe Ingredients

Series Summary

Vichyssoise is a French-style cold soup made from potatoes, onions, leeks, cream and chicken stock. While the origins of this dish are debatable, Chef Louis Diat of New York's Ritz-Carlton is generally credited with its invention.

In this series of free cooking videos you'll learn a recipe for traditional Vichyssoise. Expert chef Brandon Sarkis shows you how to make this cold soup recipe step-by-step. You'll learn what ingredients are needed to make Vichyssoise, how to slice the shallots, onion, and potatoes, how to saute the ingredients together, add cream, and pureeing the mixture together. After seasoning and chilling the dish, Brandon shows you how to serve this delicious soup.

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis, on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to make Vichyssoise, which is a cold potato soup. Let's get started with what we need today. We're going to need two shallots, two normal size regular shallots. We're also going to need one yellow onion. You could also use a white onion, but I like yellow onions. You'll also need two tablespoons of unsalted butter. I have two medium size white potatoes. I choose to use white potatoes because I'm leaving the skin on them. If you're going to peel them, you ca use whatever potato you want, but I'm going to go with white potatoes today. I have two and one third cups of chicken stock. I've also got one cup of heavy cream. You might need a little bit more, we'll just see at the end, but a cup should be about right. Of course, your gratuitous salt and pepper. You've always got to have those. Let's see, we're also going to need a nice solid cutting board, a good sharp knife, and I want to use something along the lines of this; like a nice big, deep stockpot. Just because it works better for soups, you get less splatter and things like that. With all of that, let's go ahead and get started, and I'll show you how to make the soup."