Gourmet Pea Bisque

Name: Gourmet Pea Bisque
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 Leek (sliced into rings, washed, and dried); 1 Tbsp butter; 2 cups freshly shelled or frozen peas; 3 cups vegetable stock; 0.375 cup cream; 4 Tbsps Crème fraiche; salt; peppers; sugar; 2 slices white Bread; 1 Tbsp butter; mint (to garnish)

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Health Score:

6,9 / 10

Difficulty:

moderate

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Preparation:

30 min.

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Pea soup is extremely healthy because it is full of nutritious vegetables and it is a light, low calorie way to get a serving of vitamins and fiber.

Serve this as a starter for your next dinner party or as a meal with some bread on the side.

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For the soup: 1 Leek (sliced into rings, washed, and dried); 1 Tbsp butter; 2 cups freshly shelled or frozen peas; 3 cups vegetable stock; ⅜ cup cream; 4 Tbsps Crème fraiche; salt; peppers; sugar

For the croutons: 2 slices white Bread; 1 Tbsp butter; mint (to garnish)

How healthy are the main ingredients?

Leek salt sugar mint

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Preparation steps

For the soup: Heat the butter in a saucepan and sweat the leek until tender. Add the peas and vegetable stock and simmer for 15 minutes.

Puree until smooth (keeping back a few peas if desired), pass through a sieve, and pour back into the pan. Stir in the cream (return the whole peas to the pan), season with sugar, salt, and pepper and reheat.

For the croutons: Cut the crusts off the bread, cut into cubes and fry in butter on all sides. To serve, ladle into bowls, sprinkle with croutons and place a few blobs of crème fraiche in each bowl. Serve garnished with mint.