Creamy Pea and Mint Soup

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Creamy Pea and Mint Soup

Course: Soup

Cuisine: Vegan

Main Ingredient: Vegetables

Prep Time: 5 min

Cook Time: 15 min

Total Time: 20 min

Serves: 4 Scale Update

Ingredients

• 1 onion
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1 large potatoes or 2 smaller ones
• 300 grams peas fresh or frozen
• 700 ml vegetable broth or water
• 1 handful fresh mint
• plant based cream or yogurt, (optional)
• salt and pepper to taste

Directions

1. Peel and finely dice onion and garlic cloves. Peel and dice potato.
2. In a pot, heat a table spoon of vegetable broth then add onion and garlic and gently saute until translucent, stirring occasionally.
3. Add diced potatoes and peas, pour over with vegetable stock and season with salt, pepper and finely chopped fresh herbs to taste.
4. Let it simmer and cook on low for about 15 minutes, until the potatoes and peas are fork-tender. Then, remove from heat, add the mint and blend until smooth in a blender (or with a stick blender).
5. Put back in the pot and bring to a quick boil.
6. Pour pea soup on plates and serve.
7. Optionally you can decorate with some plant-based yogurt or cream, a drizzle of olive oil, some thyme, a teaspoon of pine nuts or sunflower seeds.
8. Variation: Instead of potatoes use half a head of cauliflower.
9. Instead of onions use leek.
10. Instead of mint you can use fennel.