Recipe: Pea and mint soup

The other day He was complaining that while all of my recipes are delicious, they are somewhat unhealthy. He makes a fair point, I'm pretty good at making tasty, delicious unhealthy food. In order to correct this I decided to make pea and mint soup, however I didn't really like the sound of any of the recipes I found on the internet - some of them seemed too complicated, some of them seemed to have stupid ingredients and some of them just sounded gross. I decided to bite the bullet and just invent my own recipe - I have enough knowledge to do that surely?

Here's what I came up with:

2 shallots
1 carrot
Some celery
3 gloves of garlic
Frozen petit pois
500ml Chicken Stock (still warm)
Some mint

Firstly put all of the fresh vegetables in a food processor until finely chopped - you can do this by hand, but it takes forever so a food processor is a life saver.

Fry the vegetables in some oil in a large, deep saucepan until the shallots change colour and look translucent. Pour in all of the stock and some peas until you have a mountain of peas that is just coming to the top of the water. Heat through for about 20minutes - half an hour, until the peas are cooked through but not losing their colour (when peas are over cooked they go a dull green).

Meanwhile, in the cleaned food processor, chuck a handful of mint leaves and blitz until finely chopped. Add the hot pea mixture from the pan and blitz until it is a soft, lumpy texture. This may take a couple of goes - the second time i made this I turned on the blender and soup squirted out the sides so don't overfill it!

You should find you have a tasty soup- remember to grind in some salt and pepper and even a bit of chilli if you want your soup to have a kick. I serve this with some par-bake bread rolls. I've also tried double the quantities and it freezes well.

Enjoy!