
Lettuce & mint soup
https://www.coop.co.uk/recipes/lettuce-and-mint-soup
This minty soup is a great recipe for using up limp lettuce at the back of the fridge! Or, you could always swap it for spinach or rocket instead!
Each serving contains
% of adult’s reference intake | Carbohydrates per serving : 14g
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Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Co-op olive oil
- 2 Co-op little gem lettuces
- 850ml vegetable stock
- 500g Co-op frozen British garden peas
- 3 mint sprigs, plus extra for garnish
- 80g Co-op reduced fat crème fraîche
Method
- Heat the olive oil to medium-high
- Halve the little gem lettuces and cook, cut-side down, for 5 mins, until charred. Pour in the vegetable stock, made with 1 stock cube
- Add the peas and mint sprigs
- Bring to the boil, then simmer for 3 mins, until tender
- Cool slightly, then pour into a blender with 30g of the reduced fat crème fraîche and blitz
- Season, then swirl in another 20g crème fraîche and garnish with a few mint leaves