Quick and delicious pea soup recipe

Everyone knows the benefits of batch cooking, making something once that you can have again and again.
Pea soup with mintPea soup with mint
Pea soup with mint

Robin Van Creveld, runs The Community Chef, a social enterprise based in Sussex.

He shares a recipe for pea soup.

He said: "A quick and delicious spring soup. frozen peas are convenient to use and a good source of slow release carbohydrates."

Recipe serves 4

Ingredients:

- 300g frozen peas or petit pois

- 1 medium onion chopped

- 2 cloves garlic

- 1 tbsp olive or sunflower oil

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- 500ml of made up vegetable or chicken stop 1 cube or 2 tsp

- 200ml milk

- salt and pepper

Method:

- Blanch the frozen peas in boiling water for a couple of minutes. Drain and refresh in cold water then drain again.

- Make 500ml of stock with boiling water.

- Heat the oil in a large pot and fry the onions over a medium heat with a pinch of salt. Add the chopped garlic and fry for a minute before adding the peas and stock.

- Bring this to the boil then add the milk and bring back up to the boil for two minutes.

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- Remove from the heat blend until smooth with a hand blender.

- Season well with salt and pepper serve with a swirl of cream or yoghurt.

Variations

For pea and mint soup add a small bunch of mint leaves, roughly chopped when you add the milk to keep it plant based, soak 50g of cashew nuts in 100ml of boiling water for 30 minutes and blend to a cream. For a richer soup use cream instead of milk.

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