Fresh Pea Soup With Mint And Creme Fraiche
Serves: 6
Llewellyn Gorczany
1 January 1970
Based on User reviews:
44
Spice
43
Sweetness
55
Sourness
42
mins
Prep time (avg)
4.2
Difficulty
Ingredients:
2 tbsps
Sweet Butter1 small
Onion (diced)1 stalk
Celery (washed, diced)1
Salt1 tsp
Curry Powder1
Bay Leaf1 tsp
Dried Thyme1360 g
Pea (fresh, shelled)1 cup
Creme Fraiche2 tbsps
Mint (chopped fresh)Directions:
1
In a soup pot melt butter and add onion, celery, leek, salt, and pepper
2
Cook vegetables for 5 minutes until translucent
3
Add curry powder and cook 2 minutes
4
In cheesecloth, combine bay leaf and thyme and tie to form an herb sachet
5
Add sachet of herbs to vegetables
6
Have stock simmering in saucepan
7
Add hot stock to vegetables, boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 20 minutes
8
Add peas and simmer for additional 10 minutes
9
Remove sachet of herbs and discard
10
With immersion blender, puree soup (or puree with care in batches in a conventional standing blender)
11
Return soup and pot to heat, add creme fraiche, being careful not to allow soup to boil, reheat
12
Add mint and serve