Fennel, leek and potato soup

280 kcal · per serving

Lunch · Per serving

kcal: 280
Protein: 5.9 g
min: 40
What this plan asks for: 2.25 portions

Gluten-freeLactose-freeGentle on the stomachLunchDinner

Ingredients

Fennel· out of season here395 g
Potato· held over from the harvest225 g
Leek· fresh, in season now140 g
Vegetable stock· cupboard, all year620 g
Olive oil· cupboard, all year25 g

Method

This is what an Adriatic January actually offers, and it is the argument for the whole page: fennel and leek are standing in the ground there while a continental kitchen is three months into a cellar. Sweat the fennel gently for fifteen minutes before any liquid.

When this dish is in season

share of the dish’s weight that is seasonal, by month

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This week

It did not make it into the plan for these seven days.

Instead of this

most seasonal right now for the same slot

Bulgur with tomato and a great deal of herb356 kcal · 100% in season
Carrot and apple slaw197 kcal · 100% in season
Clear chicken broth with rice267 kcal · 100% in season
Kholodnyk — chilled beetroot and kefir soup276 kcal · 100% in season

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What this page cannot tell you

Your weight, height, age or how much you move. The baseline is 2000 kcal, a round planning figure for an adult of average size. At 55 kg, or if you run, shift it yourself.
The seasonal windows are market windows rather than botanical ones, and carry about a fortnight of resolution. A place’s offset from its zone baseline is one integer: it knows nothing about altitude, and nothing about this spring being late.
Every crop has exactly one fresh window per zone. Spinach and lettuce genuinely crop twice, spring and autumn, and only one of the two is shown here.
Oats are counted gluten-free. That is true of the grain and false of most mills; with coeliac disease, buy oats certified on a dedicated line.
Gentle is a kitchen heuristic, not a medical diet. Pancreatitis, IBS and an acute gastritis need a doctor, not a page that reads the weather.
Weights are raw and as purchased. Grains take up water and meat and vegetables lose it; the calories are counted before the pan, not after.
The weather is a forecast, and beyond three days the apparent temperature moves by a few degrees. The end of the week is an intention, not a fact.