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PEA AND PESTO SOUP

While you can make it with pesto from a jar, the difference when you use the "fresh" stuff in a tub that you can find in chiller cabinets in the supermarkets is astonishing. I think soup tastes better made in a blender rather than a food processor, and it's best to use a blender which has a central plug in the lid that you can remove to stop the pressure building up - which, in turn, prevents you getting soup all over you or your walls.

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Ingredients

  • Express Recipe
  • Gluten Free
  • Nigella Recipe
  • Vegetarian
  • 750ml water
  • 375g frozen peas
  • 2 spring onions, trimmed but whole
  • 1 teaspoon Maldon salt or 1/2 teaspoon table salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon lime juice
  • 4 x 15ml tablespoons fresh pesto (from tub not jar)
  • 2 x 15ml tablespoons pine nuts (optional)

Method

Serves: Makes enough for 2 hearty bowl

  1. Fill a kettle and put it on to boil. When it's boiled, measure the amount you need into a pan, or the small Flameware Marmitout, and put on the hob to come back to the boil.
  2. Fill a thermos (if using) with the remaining hot water.
  3. Add the frozen peas, spring onions, salt and lime juice to the pan/Marmitout and let everything bubble together for 7 minutes.
  4. Discard the spring onions and blitz the peas and their liquid with the pesto in a blender.
  5. If using a thermos, then empty out the hot water and then pour in the soup, making sure you screw the top on securely.  Otherwise, our the liquidised soup back into the Marmitout and keep warm over a gentle heat until you are ready to ladle into bowls.
  6. If using, tip the pinenuts into the Marmitout lid, or a small frying pan, and toast over a medium heat until they begin to colour.  Sprinkle over each bowl of soup.
  7. Additional information - for vegetarians check the ingredients in the pesto as some brands may use cheese containing rennet.

Comments

  • I love this soup, it's easy, comforting and healthy as much as tasty. I use to add a piece of robiola cheese and some bread, to obtain a complete dinner.

    Posted by SaraS on 24th Oct 2011 at 20.27

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