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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 24^th 2020

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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

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Time required for this recipe:

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33 min.	20 min.	53 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

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.

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.

Slice the white part of 1 spring onion (scallion).

Stage 4 - 3 min.

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.

Add the pea pods...

Stage 6 - 2 min.

...and cook for 1 or 2 minutes, stirring from time to time.

Stage 7 - 1 min.

Add 1 litre 500 ml water...

Stage 8 - 1 min.

...then the potatoes.

Stage 9 - 15 min.

Cook until the potatoes are tender.

Stage 10 - 2 min.

Give a good blast with a blender, then check the seasoning.

Stage 11 - 5 min.

Pass the soup through a sieve, as the pea pods tend to be a bit fibrous.

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

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
703 Kcal or 2,943 Kj	9 gr	75 gr	42 gr
26 %	3 %	5 %	5 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
29 Kcal or 121 Kj	< 1 gr	3 gr	2 gr
1 %	<1 %	<1 %	<1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2700 k-calories or 11300 k-joules by day for a man (change to a woman).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk

How much will it cost?

For 2 litres : 0.82 €

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