Super-green, super-thrifty soup


Super-green, super-thrifty soup
It's all too easy to just throw away the leaves or other green parts of our usual fresh vegetables. This is a real shame, because most of them can be cooked, as in this very green soup that uses up radish tops, spring onion greens and pea pods.

I'm sure you'll get how it's "green" in every sense: economical, simple and a way to reduce waste.
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Last modified on: June 24th 2020
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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 35 min.
Cooking: 20 min.
All in all: 55 min.
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Stage 1 - ⌛ 10 min.
Super-green, super-thrifty soup : Stage 1
Rinse all the vegetable tops you have saved.

Here I am using radish tops, pea pods and the green part of a spring onion.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 10 min.
Super-green, super-thrifty soup : Stage 2
Peel, rinse and slice 2 potatoes, but do not rinse again, as we'll make use of the starch on the slices as a natural thickener for the soup.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 3 min.
Super-green, super-thrifty soup : Stage 3
Slice the white part of 1 spring onion (scallion).

Stage 4 - ⌛ 3 min.
Super-green, super-thrifty soup : Stage 4
Melt 50 g butter in a large saucepan on high heat.

When frothing, add the white of the spring onion, salt, pepper and cook for 1 minute without colouring.

Add the radish and spring onion tops and cook for a further minute while stirring.

Stage 5 - ⌛ 1 min.
Super-green, super-thrifty soup : Stage 5
Add the pea pods...

Stage 6 - ⌛ 2 min.
Super-green, super-thrifty soup : Stage 6
...and cook for 1 or 2 minutes, stirring from time to time.

Stage 7 - ⌛ 1 min.
Super-green, super-thrifty soup : Stage 7
Add 1 litre 500 ml water...

Stage 8 - ⌛ 1 min.
Super-green, super-thrifty soup : Stage 8
...then the potatoes.

Stage 9 - ⌛ 15 min.
Super-green, super-thrifty soup : Stage 9
Cook until the potatoes are tender.

Stage 10 - ⌛ 2 min.
Super-green, super-thrifty soup : Stage 10
Give a good blast with a blender, then check the seasoning.

Stage 11 - ⌛ 5 min.
Super-green, super-thrifty soup : Stage 11
Pass the soup through a sieve, as the pea pods tend to be a bit fibrous.

Stage 12
Super-green, super-thrifty soup : Stage 12
Your soup is ready.
Remarks
You can use almost any vegetable tops for this recipe. Here at home, depending on what's around, we'll use carrot tops, beetroot leaves, chard stalks...

In stage 8 you can add a stock cube for more flavour.
Keeping: A few days in the fridge in a sealed bottle.
Source: Home made.
Nutritional information
Proteins (gr)Carbohydrates (gr)Fats (gr)Energy value (in k-calories)Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe9 RDI=4 %70 RDI=7 %40 RDI=6 %700 RDI=40 %2,940 RDI: 40 %
Per 100 g03 RDI=0 %1 RDI=0 %30 RDI=1 %120 RDI: 1 %
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman
Possible allergens in this recipe: milk
How much will it cost?
  • For 2 litres : 0.85 €

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