Creamy garlic and potato soup with baguette

Name: Creamy garlic and potato soup with baguette
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 1/2 Butter; 1.5 heads + a few cloves Garlic; 5–6 Potatoes; 1 l Broth; 2 tbsp Vegetable oil; Seasonings (Bay leaf, black pepper, salt); 1/2 Baguette

Garlic and potatoes simmer in broth with butter, then are blended until smooth and served with crispy pan-toasted baguette. Serves 4.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Servings: 4 servings
Difficulty: Medium
Cuisine: Slovak

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Garlic and potato soup with baguette is a creamy garlic soup you can make in about 20 minutes. The potatoes are briefly sautéed in butter with garlic, covered with broth and a bay leaf, and cooked until tender before the soup is blended until smooth. A few cloves of raw garlic are added at the end, with the amount depending on how strong you like it. Serve with baguette cubes toasted in a skillet until crisp for a warming meal, especially on cold winter days.

Instructions

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Cut the potatoes into small cubes and finely grate the garlic. Melt the butter in a pot, add the potatoes, and sauté for about 2 minutes. Add the garlic, bay leaf, black pepper, and salt, stir, then pour in the broth.
Simmer for about 20 minutes, until the potatoes are tender.
Remove the bay leaf from the cooked soup and blend until smooth with an immersion blender. Finally, add, for example, 5 finely chopped or pressed garlic cloves, stir, and serve.
Tip: Adjust the amount of garlic added at the end to the volume of soup and how strong you want the garlic flavor to be.
Serve the soup with toast or pan-toasted baguette. Cut the baguette into rounds or cubes and heat a little oil in a skillet. Season the baguette with salt to taste and toast on each side until crisp. Add the toasted pieces directly to the soup.

Tip: Stir the grated garlic briefly into the potatoes and butter, then immediately add the broth. If the garlic browns, it will give the soup a bitter taste.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 648 kcal
Protein: 15 g
Carbohydrates: 67 g
of which sugars: 7.3 g
Fat: 36 g
of which saturates: 18 g
Fiber: 5.4 g
Salt: 1.4 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Cesnaková polievka so zemiakmi a bagetou – za 20 minút