Very quick, very colourful, very moreish, in no way seems like a ‘slimming soup’ and children love it!
Serves 3
Ingredients
600ml frozen peas
600ml chicken or vegetable stock
1 old-fashioned round lettuce, cleaned and shredded
A generous bunch of fresh mint, chopped
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
0% fat Greek yoghurt
Method
• Put a couple of handfuls of the peas in a bowl, pour over some boiling water and leave to plump up while you make the soup.
• Put the stock in a soup pot and bring to the boil.
• Add the remainder of the peas and simmer gently until tender.
• Turn off the heat and stir in the lettuce and mint.
• Whizz with a hand blender until smooth (or the texture you prefer) then return to a clean pot and reheat gently.
• Add a few good grindings of black pepper (you are unlikely to need salt but taste and check).
• Ladle into bowls/mugs, top with a couple of teaspoons of yoghurt and quickly swirl with a skewer, drain the peas which have been soaking in the boiling water and scatter over the soup before serving.
This recipe has been donated by Fiona Kirk & Jean Barr, authors of the book ‘SOUP CAN MAKE YOU THIN’ available in eBook format, £4.99 from www.souperydupery.com.
Just made this so tasty. Hard to believe there’s so little calories in it. Yum!
This is what I call ‘eating tasty food without guilt’.