Pea green soup

Easy, quick and delicious, this is one of my favourite simple saturday dishes that takes literally minutes to make and can be served hot with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese in the winter, or chilled for a simple summer supper.

If you're vegan just swap the milk for the same quantity of extra stock!

Ingredients (4 servings)

1 pint chicken or vegetable stock, 1 pint of milk, 2 cloves crushed garlic, 2 big mugs of frozen petit pois peas, 1tbsp dried mint or a few leaves of fresh mint finely chopped, 3 spring onions finely chopped, drizzle olive oil. 

Heat the oil in a large pan and quickly fry the spring onion and garlic until softened. Add the peas, stock and milk and slowly bring to a simmer, do not boil or it might split. Add the mint and using a handheld immersion blender blend until smooth. 

I love this hot with Parmesan, or perhaps some crispy fried bacon bits, however it's great either way!