Saturday 15 December 2012

Pea and Smoky Bacon Soup. So Easy.

Last night we went to a carol concert, South African stylee - Ladysmith Black Mambazo in the Durban Botanical Gardens.  What fun it was. While they made a good go at Jingle Bells, my favourite is still their rendition of Old MacDonald Has a Farm...!


So needing to make a picnic for the event as well as needing some space in the freezer I decided to whip up some pea and bacon soup.  It is so unbelievably easy and works so well either as a filling picnic soup or a sunday night snuggle mug.

Ingredients (makes enough for 4 hungry people)

1 tbsp olive oil
1 kg bag of frozen peas
200 g free range smoked bacon bacon, cut into chunks
2 tbsp veg stock powder
3 spring onions, trimmed but kept whole
salt and black pepper

Method

1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan then add the bacon.  Fry on a moderate heat until cooked then pour in the frozen peas, spring onions, stock powder and enough boiling water to cover.  Season, bring to the boil and simmer for 4 minutes.


2. Remove from the heat, discard the spring onions, puree and serve.


So easy, so delicious and so last minute dot com.

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