How To Make Pea Soup

How To Make Pea Soup

Pea Soup Recipe. Garden Pea Soup garnished with crème fraiche - perfect for all occasions. Accompanied with bread is an ideal light-snack or starter. Sample our Pea Soup recipe.

You Will Need

• 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 2 Tbsp butter
• 1 medium white onion, diced
• 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
• 3 bacon rashers, chopped
• 2 carrots, peeled and diced
• 2 celery stalks, sliced
• 450 g whole peas
• 1 ½ ltr vegetable stock
• 700 g frozen peas
• salt to taste
• crème fraiche to serve
• 1 large saucepan with a lid
• 1 wooden spoon
• 1 hand blender
• 1 strainer
• 1 bowl
• 1 liquidizer or food processor
• 1 ladle
• 1 medium bowl

---

Step 1:

Thaw the frozen peas

Put the frozen peas into a medium-sized bowl to let them thaw naturally while you make the base of the soup.

---

Step 2:

Heat the oil and butter

Pour the olive oil into the saucepan and add the butter. Place the pan over a low temperature to heat.

---

Step 3:

Add the vegetables and the bacon

When the butter has melted, add the onions, garlic, bacon, carrots and celery. Stir the ingredients together well and leave them to sweat for about 10 minutes.

---

Step 4:

Add the peas and stock

When the onions are more or less translucent stir in the peas and then continue stirring as you pour in the stock.

---

Step 5:

Leave to cook

Cover the pan and leave the soup to cook for 35 minutes.

---

Step 6:

Slightly blend the soup

35 minutes later when the soup is well-cooked blend it slightly. Take the hand blender and buzz it briefly four to five times in different parts of the pan.

---

Step 7:

Pass through a strainer

Pass the soup through a strainer into a large bowl pressing as much out as possible.

---

Step 8:

Liquidize in batches

Now pour the soup into a liquidizer, add the peas and liquidize into a purée. When finished, pour this into a separate bowl.

---

Step 9:

Season with salt

Season with some salt to taste.

---

Step 10:

Serve and garnish with crème fraiche

The pea soup is ready to serve. Ladle it into the soup bowls and pop a spoon of crème fraiche on top to garnish.