Gorgeous pea soup recipe

Just made this for lunch, it was so nice thought I'd post it here. it's not my recipe, it's from a book I have, but it seems good from a nutrition perspective for people on here.

Makes two portions.

Ingredients:

1 tbsp olive oil
1 small onion, roughly chopped
1 red chilli, seeded and roughly chopped
1 garlic clove, roughly chopped
1 tsp cumin seeds
500g bag frozen garden peas
600ml chicken stock
2 slices parma ham
2 tbsp half fat creme fraiche
Half a lemon
Salt and pepper

Method:

Heat olive oil in large saucepan, fry onion, garlic and chilli for 4 minutes.

Add cumin seeds and fry for a further minute.

Add the peas and stock, bring to the boil and simmer for 3 minutes.

Puree with a hand blender or in a blender.

Add juice of half a lemon, creme fraiche and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Heat a non stick frying pan and cook the parma ham for 30 seconds each side.

Ladle the soup into a bowl and break over the crispy ham.

Nutritional breakdown:

Calories 272
Protein 21g
Carbohydrate 29g
Fat 9g
Saturated fat 2g
Fibre 13g
Added sugars 0
Salt 1.75g


Try it, it's really nice!

Hmm sounds lush..

Recipe threads without pics should be banned!!!!

It does sound rather nice though. Perfect autumn food.