i say potato, you say patato

super easy baked potato soup a la our mongolian kitchen


there are limited vegetables to be found in mongolia, but we can consistently find potatoes, carrots, onions and bell peppers at the market.

this leads to us constantly trying to think of new ways to cook meals with these four vegetables. we eat a lot of steamed vegetables with rice, make hash browns with our eggs (that have onions and bell peppers in them), eat veggie stir-fry and use veggies as pizza toppings.

we've been talking recently about how we wanted to make soup, as we haven't been able to find our favorite soup at the store as of late. Ready made broth isn't an option, so we've been thinking up ways to make our own broth.

but to start our soup-making adventures, we went with a milk base and used a recipe for baked potato soup that Hol found online.



I didn't use whole milk, we don't have bacon, chives or green onions- but my goodness, this was a darn good soup.



and all it took was:

ten small boiled potatoes (the recipe called for them to be microwaved, but that wasn't really an option in our kitchen), 1/8 of an onion, 6 cups of milk, about a cup of flour, 2/3 cup of butter, a bit of salt and pepper and some sour cream for on top.