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Ham and Pea Soup
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Ingredients
- 1 onion, Technique: Chop To cut large ingredients or dishes into smaller chunks using a sharp knife. You can chop using a serrated blade fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please chopped
- 1 bulb of garlic, finely Technique: Chop To cut large ingredients or dishes into smaller chunks using a sharp knife. You can chop using a serrated blade fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please chopped
- 50g Technique: Using Butter You could replace butter with Stork margarine. It's easy to use and comes in blocks, tubs and liquid for any kind of dish from sweet baking to savoury meals. I know this Tell me more butter
- 900g frozen peas
- 2 tbsp flour
- 500g cooked ham, Technique: Dicing Cutting a larger piece of food into even cube-shaped pieces. I know this Teach me, please diced into 1-2 cm cubes
- 1500ml ham stock
- 500ml milk
- Salt and ground pepper
- Creme fraiche
- Technique: Chop To cut large ingredients or dishes into smaller chunks using a sharp knife. You can chop using a serrated blade fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please Chopped parsley
Method
How to make Ham and Pea Soup
Heat the Technique: Using Butter You could replace butter with Stork margarine. It's easy to use and comes in blocks, tubs and liquid for any kind of dish from sweet baking to savoury meals. I know this Tell me more butter in a pan and sweat the onion and garlic for 5 minutes. Add the flour and cook out for 3 minutes.
Slowly pour in the stock, stirring continuously, then add the milk. Bring to the boil, add the peas and cook for no more than 5 minutes. Purée in a blender in batches. Do not overfill the blender more than half way for each batch.
Return the soup to a clean pan. Season, add the ham and warm through. Purée again and serve with crème fraiché and Technique: Chop To cut large ingredients or dishes into smaller chunks using a sharp knife. You can chop using a serrated blade fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please chopped parsley.
