Green pea soup

The weather is cooler, it is time to make some soup to keep us warm! :) Many people don't like eating green pea, yet it is very nutritive and actually it can be delicious. 

This recipe is good, you don't actually see the pea as it is mashed. The color is very bright, which raises your appetite!

If you do not like green pea, give it a try, you might like it since then!

Ingredients
1 small onion
1-2 small carrot

90g butter
2 tsp salt

1/2 cup white wine

4 cups chicken broth

600g fresh or frozen green pea

Black pepper

Optional: crème fraîche & mint leaves

Instructions

1. Finely chop onion, peel carrot & cut into 1/2" pieces

2. In a big pot, at medium heat, melt butter

Add in onion, carrot & salt, stir regularly, let it cook for 15 mins

Normally you can insert slightly the fork in carrots but you can feel that they are a bit firm

3. Add wine, increase the heat & bring to boil, let it boil for 5mins

After 5 mins, add in chicken broth, again bring it to boil

Then add pea

Optional step: if you like to chew carrot, you can remove some carrot pieces & set aside, put them back after blending the green pea

4. You can test the pea, if they are tender, you can use a hand blender to blender the soup until smooth

If you removed the carrot pieces earlier, put them back and let it simmer for 5 mins

5. Add several twist of pepper

If you want to, you can add crème fraîche & mint leaves

Serve hot!

If you want to make it the night before & want to stay bright...

set up a big bowl of ice water & place another big bowl inside. Once the soup is done, pour it into the bowl and stir until it's cold. reheat to serve

Enjoy!