Pea And Pesto Soup Nigella Lawson Recipes

PEA AND PESTO SOUP - NIGELLA LAWSON

Steps:

• Combine water, salt, peas, lime juice and scallions in a saucepan. Bring to a simmer and cook until peas are tender, 3-5 minutes. Remove scallions and discard.
• Transfer soup to a blender. Add pesto and process until smooth. Serve hot.

PEA AND PESTO SOUP

Steps:

• The quickest way to proceed is to fill a kettle first and put it on to boil. When it's boiled, measure the amount you need into a pan and put on the stove to come back to a boil.
• Add the frozen peas, scallions, salt and lime juice and let everything bubble together for 7 minutes.
• Discard the scallions and blitz the peas and their liquid with the pesto in a blender.*
• Pour into a thermos flask that you've left filled with hot water and then emptied and make sure you screw the top on securely.
• *When blending hot liquids: Remove liquid from the heat and allow to cool for at least 5 minutes. Transfer liquid to a blender or food processor and fill it no more than halfway. If using a blender, release one corner of the lid. This prevents the vacuum effect that creates heat explosions. Place a towel over the top of the machine, pulse a few times then process on high speed until smooth.

NIGELLA LAWSON YELLOW SPLIT PEA AND FRANKFURTER SOUP

Steps:

• Peel the onion, carrot and garlic and cut the onion and carrot into rough chunks. Put them all, along with the roughly cut up stick of celery into the bowl of a food processor. Blitz till all are finely chopped.
• Spoon the oil into a heavy-based wide saucepan and put on medium heat. When warm, add the chopped vegetables from the processor and cook for 5-10 minutes, until soft but not colored.
• Add the ground mace-give a good stir and then add the split peas and stir again until their are glossily mixed with the oil-slicked, cooked-down vegetables. Pour over 5 cups stock and add the bay leaves, then bring to a boil. Cover, turn down the heat and cook for about an hour until everything is tender and sludgy, adding more stock as needed. Sometimes the peas seem to thicken too much before they actually cook and need to be watered down. Taste for seasoning once everything's ready.
• You can add the frankfurters as you wish. It's probably easiest just to cut them into slices - I tend to add them in chunks of about and inch each - and throw them into the soup warm, but I just put them in the microwave (40 seconds on high is about right for one or two franks) then slice them hot and add them to each person's bowl as they come. Not an elegant soup, I'll admit, but a near-perfect one.