| Green Pea Soup |
| ingredients: |
One pound peas (fresh or frozen)
One bunch spring onions
One round lettuce
One pint chicken stock (or made
from a cube)
One ounce butter (25g or ¼
stick)
One level teaspoon castor (fine
granulated) sugar
One clove garlic
Salt and pepper to taste |
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| method: |
Peel and crush the garlic and trim and slice the spring onions. Soften them
by heating in butter in a pan
for three minutes. Then add
stock, peas, roughly chopped
lettuce, sugar, salt and pepper
and bring to the boil. Simmer
for roughly five minutes. Cool
slightly and then put through
a blender.
Green pea soup can be served
either hot or cold - but heat
or cool quickly to preserve
the colour.
If served cold, garnish with
chopped mint. If served hot,
garnish with cream or fromage
frais. |
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has always been a mystery why green
pea soup in cans is not available on
supermarket shelves, certainly in Scotland.
It is tasty and an attractive colour.
But the lack of an "off the shelf"
version just gives the incentive to
make it yourself! |
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