: a soup typically made of pureed leeks or onions and potatoes, cream, and chicken stock and usually served cold
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebAs if Meghan and Harry were coming over for vichyssoise and tomato aspic. Ali Wentworth, Town & Country, 8 May 2022 Cannon would prepare vichyssoise, a French soup, with frozen mashed potatoes, a leek, and Campbell’s cream-of-chicken soup. Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021 Think green gazpacho, chlodnik (Polish beet soup), cucumber yogurt (the beach is your spa), chilled corn chowder, or vichyssoise. Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 20 July 2021 The starchy potatoes melt down into something almost cream-like, making the dish taste like a more exciting take on vichyssoise. Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021 Instead, Beard served vichyssoise and stuffed tomatoes. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020 And of course, vichyssoise, created by the French, is a cold potato and leek soup. Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2020 Sample appetizers include crab avocado mousse and butternut squash vichyssoise. Leeanne Griffin, courant.com, 5 Dec. 2019 The menu included gougères ($3.50 for twelve), ravioli ($8 for four servings), and vichyssoise ($4 with onions, $6 with leeks, for four servings). Adam Shatz, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019 See More
Word History
Etymology
French, from feminine of vichyssois of Vichy, from Vichy, France