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Simple Pea and Garlic Soup
“If you have a bag of frozen peas stashed away, you’re always halfway to something delicious”
Take three ingredients, take one more if you want, and then — maybe — take just one more. It’s as simple as that. These very straightforward recipes can be made with minimum effort and ingredients, but the more things you add, the better they get. The only ingredient I’m going to assume you have already is salt and pepper, everything else gets added to the total. However, feel free to use these ideas as starting points for your own experimenting based on what you have to hand.
It was in Nigella Lawson’s cookbook How To Eat that she spoke reverently of frozen peas, referring to them as a “green meat,” and it’s from her that this recipe is inspired. She’s right — they’re so much more than a side dish. If you have a bag of frozen peas stashed away, you’re always halfway to something delicious: a simple pasta or risotto, a curry or braise, or this soup. When it comes down to it, this is really just peas and water blitzed up — so if you’re even slightly on the fence about your love of peas, this might not be for you. But…
