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All The Peas and Red Pesto Soup

Home   Recipes for Pulses, Grains, Seeds, Flakes, Flour, Ferments...   All The Peas and Red Pesto Soup
Autumn Blue Peas Carlin Peas Dried Peas Marrowfat Peas Peas Pulses Soups Vegan Vegetarian Whole Peas Winter Yellow Peas

by Jenny Chandler February 08, 2023

This comforting and sustaining winter recipe from Jenny Chandler makes great use of our Mix #3 - All The Peas, a five variety mix of Red Fox Carlin, Black Badger Carlin, Whole Blue, Whole Yellow and Marrowfat Peas.

The mix of pea varieties gives a fabulous range of textures and flavours once cooked, with some of the softer marrowfat peas collapsing to give a rich, creamy stock.

While this recipe only uses 250g of dried peas, it makes absolute sense to cook the entire 500g bag of mixed peas, saving both energy and time (pressure cooking the peas will make further savings on both counts too). You can double up the soup recipe or freeze half your cooked peas to use at a later date.

There are a number of excellent sun-dried tomato pestos on the market, both vegan or containing cheese, but making your own is an absolute cinch and an opportunity to use up any random nuts in the cupboard.

Homemade sun-dried tomato pesto:
Using a liquidiser, or hand-held blender, blitz together 2 crushed cloves of garlic, 100 g sun-dried tomatoes (drained of their oil), 1 tbsp tomato purée, 50 g pine nuts (or walnuts/almonds/hazelnuts), about 12 basil leaves and a heaped tablespoon of either nutritional yeast or grated parmesan. Add enough extra virgin olive oil to make a thick paste. Taste, your tomatoes will probably provide enough salt to season the dish.

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 250g Mix #3 All The Peas, soaked overnight
  • 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 1 Medium Onion, sliced
  • 2 Cloves of Garlic
  • 120g Sundried Tomato Pesto (see above to make your own)
  • ½ tsp Chilli Flakes (optional)
  • 200-300 ml Vegetable Stock (optional
Top with:
  • ½ - 1 Preserved Lemon
  • 1 large Handful of Flat Leaf Parsley
  • 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Method

  1. Soak the peas overnight, drain and then cover by about 5 cm of water in a large pan. Bring up to the boil and simmer for around 45 minutes or until the peas are tender and a small proportion have begun to collapse.
  2. Take a small pan and fry the sliced onion in the olive oil over a medium heat for about 10 minutes until soft and beginning to brown. Throw in the garlic and cook for a couple of minutes until you are hit by the aroma. Stir the mixture into the peas along with the sun-dried tomato pesto and the chilli flakes.
  3. Add a little vegetable stock if the pea soup seems too thick, or you may prefer to leave a more stewy texture that can almost be scooped up with a flat bread. Season with a little salt, keeping in mind that the preserved lemon garnish will be quite salty itself.
  4. Scrape away and discard the lemon flesh and chop up the skin into tiny dice. Taste, and decide how much to add, it’s quite an assertive flavour, so do go carefully. Chop the parsley leaves.
  5. Serve the hot soup sprinkled with the preserved lemon and parsley, and a dash of extra virgin olive oil.
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