soup

This dish allows the leeks and peas to cook and soften together slowly, lending their flavours to each other. Cooking the peas slowly helps release their starch, giving the dish an overall creamier consistency. The salsa verde adds a great savoury tang. Author Eden Owen-Jones is an avid listener of the Home Cooking podcast with Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway and there is only so many times she could hear Samin talk about this salsa without trying to make a version for herself – we think it works really nicely here. 

Isabella Palmer's take on Iranian ash reshteh made with English marrowfat and split or naked yellow peas is a comforting noodle soup that makes the most of the creamy sweetness of British-grown marrowfat peas. Serve topped with tangy dairy, fresh herbs and crispy onions (the ready-made kind are very convenient). Classically ash reshteh has sour yoghurt stirred through before serving, but Isabella prefers just using sour cream or crème fraîche as a topping. 

A traditional stew can really hit the spot on a cold winter's day. The combination of pearled spelt and lentils makes for a comforting and satiating meal, with the complex salty miso and bright lemon juice balancing this dish beautifully.

Nokedli are little Hungarian spaetzle like noodles, usually eaten with paprikash. In this recipe they are made with naked barley flour giving them a deliciously nutty flavour to compliment this savoury mushroom broth. In place of a traditional spaetzle maker Eden has used a colander, which worked well.

Introduced by the Spanish during occupation and colonisation, fava beans have been used in Mexico for hundreds of years. There are many variations of this simple soup, made and eaten primarily during Lent. Most use chicken stock, but Eden packs in plenty of rich and savoury notes into the dish while keeping it vegetarian.

Inspired by traditional Peruvian quinoa soups, this soup uses a version of Aji Amarillo paste made using ingredients easily found in the UK rather than the traditional yellow Amarillo chillies. The flavour of this soup is distinctively fruity, savoury and a little spicy.