Green pea soup
Beautiful in color, plenty on vitamins, quick to cook and absolutely delicious! I have to say that I vamped it up with pan seared smoked hallibut – this because we had it as a left over from a lunch consisting of fish. But the halibut had not been cut in those delicious fine slices but was too salty and not very delicate. So I tried to come up with a solution to use it delicately – and a green pea soup came into mind. But you don’t need to add halibut or anything else but if you want some extra flavor, you could try to fry some smoked bacon and drizzle a handful before serving.
Green peas can be bought frozen in bags of 500 grams. I will definitely keep some on stock from now on.
Ingredients:
- A bag of frozen green peas (500 grams)
- 500 ml. stronger chicken stock
- 1 dl cream (38 %)
- 1 fennel
- a good handful of flat leaf parsley (don’t worry if you can only get the curly parsley)
- 2 tbsp of freshly squeezed lemon
- 2 cloves of garlic
- a sprig of dill for presentation
- salt and pepper
Method:
Slice the fennel as finely as possible. Roughly remove the stems of the parsley, mix with lemon and two cloves of minced garlic.
Meanwhile, cook up the broth, add the frozen peas and let them cook for about 5 minutes. Add about 1/3 of the mixed fennel, garlic, lemon and parsley and cook for anothoer 5 mintues. Blend well and until smooth. Add about 1/2 tsp. salt, a pinch of black pepper and cream.
Divide the soup between 5 bowl. In the center of each bowl or soup plate, place a small portion of the remaining fennel, garlic, lemon and parsley. In addition I had cut some left over smoked halibut in thin stripes and quickly turned them in hot vegetable oil and added these to the soup. On top I added a spoonful of roe (this is absolutely not necessary…you don’t need to add this or anything else. But you could add a bit of fried bacon crumbs to add taste…or other steamed fish to make it into a full meal).
Finally I topped the soup with a sprig of parsley and dill.
That’s it!
Again…don’t forget to think out of the box. The soup can be used as a base or just as it is.
