Super-green, super-thrifty soup

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 2 litres, you will need:

• 1 400 g turnip (or other vegetable) tops
• 2 2 potatoes
• 3 1 spring onion (scallion)
• 4 50 g butter
• 5 1 litre 500 ml water
• 6 salt
• 7 pepper
• Total weight: 2,395 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
33 min.	20 min.	53 min.

Step by step recipe

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.
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.
3	Slice the white part of 1 spring onion (scallion).
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.
5	Add the pea pods...
6	...and cook for 1 or 2 minutes, stirring from time to time.
7	Add 1 litre 500 ml water...
8	...then the potatoes.
9	Cook until the potatoes are tender.
10	Give a good blast with a blender, then check the seasoning.
11	Pass the soup through a sieve, as the pea pods tend to be a bit fibrous.
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.

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