Fennel and beer soup

Ingredients
- 1 big fennel - 1 leek - about 12 carrots - 6 potatoes - 3 chicken breast - 2 cans of beer - 1 liter of chicken stock (or water with some bouillon cubes) - salt, fresh grind black pepper and olive oil (vegetairian variaton, delete chicken, add mushrooms)
Instructions
This soup has enough in it to serve as a meal for 4. Nice with some bread and....a beer! 1. Chop up the veggies and the peeled potatoes not to fine. Chop the chicken into bitesize bits. 2. Put a big pan on the fire, and heat the oil. Stirfry the chicken for about 4 minutes, than add the veggies, beer, stock (or water with cubes) and a lot of fresh grind pepper. Bring to the boil, and turn down heat. Put a lid on, and sit back for about 25 minutes. 3. Taste soup and add salt and pepper if needed. -edit- found a variation with fennel soup, in this recipe they put the whole bunch in the blender, and added some cream...and it tasted good!!!