Easy 5 Ingredient Hungarian Dairy-Free Potato Soup
Chunky, creamy super easy 5 ingredient potato soup without milk. Pair with Poppy Seed Bread Pudding for a traditional Hungarian No Meat Friday Meal.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
- Category: Main Dish, Soup
- Cuisine: Eastern European
Ingredients
- 4 Potatoes
- 3 -4 cups Water (*See Note 1)
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 1 Onion (large, diced)
- 2 Tbsp Oil
- 2 Tbsp Flour
- 1/4 tsp Hungarian Paprika
- Salt and Pepper
- Sprinkling of Parsley
- Garnishes (*See Note 3)
Instructions
Cue Up The Episode!
- Peel and chop the potatoes to smallish dice. If you're really in a hurry, you don't need to peel the potatoes - I never do 😉
Make The Recipe
- Sauté onions to tender
- Add potatoes, water, and bay leaves (See Note 1)
- Slowly bring to a simmer
- Cover pot and simmer until potatoes are tender
- In a non stick fry pan make a roux from 2 Tbsp oil and flour
- Stir in the paprika and then add this to the soup to thicken it (*See Note 2)
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Sprinkle some parsley on top and serve with sour cream or any other preferred toppings (See Note 3)
Notes
- Note 1: Truly, the soup is plenty flavorful with water. However, if you'd prefer, you can always replace all or part of the water with chicken stock, vegetable broth, milk/cream, or a non-dairy milk.
- Note 2: If you need to thicken your soup even more, you can: use chickpea flour or make a roux with corn starch, water, and soup broth for gluten-free options, or you can mash 1/3 of the potatoes to make it thicker.
- Note 3: Dora recommends sour cream and parsley as the most popular Hungarian garnishes. You can also try crispy crumbled bacon, fried onions, cheese, fresh dill, or anything else you imagine!
- Make sure to listen to Dora on The Storied Recipe Podcast, A Hungarian Friday Meal while you make her Potato Soup recipe!
Nutrition
- Calories: 167
- Sugar: 2
- Sodium: 10
- Fat: 5
- Saturated Fat: 0.4
- Carbohydrates: 28
- Fiber: 4
- Protein: 3