Chilled pea soup
- Portion size: Serves 4
- Hands-on time 15 min, simmering time 10 min, plus chilling
- Difficulty: easy
Delicately fresh and sweet, this chilled pea soup is a summer stunner. It’s cheap to make too as it uses frozen petit pois.
Next time: try your hand at classic gazpacho.
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Ingredients
- Olive oil for frying and drizzling
- Bunch spring onions, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 300g petits pois
- 750ml good quality vegetable or chicken stock, hot
- Large handful fresh basil
- 60g bag mixed watercress, rocket and spinach salad leaves
- 150ml yogurt
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Method
- Heat a glug of oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat. Add the spring onions and cook for 8 minutes, then add the garlic and cook for 2 minutes more. Stir in the peas, then pour over the hot stock, season with salt and pepper and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, roughly chop most of the basil and most of the salad leaves. After the soup has been cooking for 5 minutes, add the chopped leaves to the pan. Bring back to a simmer and cook for a further 2 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and, using a stick blender, whizz until smooth. Stir in most of the yogurt, then put in an airtight container and chill for at least 4 hours (see Make Ahead).
- Once chilled, season to taste and divide among 4 bowls. Top with the remaining yogurt, basil, salad leaves and a drizzle of olive oil to serve.
Nutrition
- 123kcals Calories
- 3.3g (1.5g saturated) Fat
- 8g Protein
- 12.9g (6.1g sugars) Carbs
- 4.7g Fibre
- 0.6g Salt
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