Quick summer recipe for 2 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has grains, frozen pea, mint, spring onion, white wine vinegar, golden caster sugar, vegetable stock, ham and pea.
Summer ham & pea broth
Course: Quick summer
Servings
2
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Vegetable Stock: 1/2 vegetable stock cube
- Spring Onion: 2 spring onions, whites and greens separated and thinly sliced
- Mint: small bunch mint, leaves picked
- Frozen Pea: 200g frozen pea
- White Wine Vinegar: 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- Pea: big handful pea shoots
- Ham: 140g piece of ham, or thick slices, trimmed of any fat and shredded or finely chopped
- Golden Caster Sugar: 1 tsp golden caster sugar
- Grains: 250g pouch ready-to-eat mixed grains (we used Merchant Gourmet Wholesome Mix)
Directions
- Heat the grains in the microwave following pack instructions. Put the peas in a sieve and pour over boiling water.
- Put 50g of the peas, most of the mint leaves, the spring onion whites, vinegar, sugar and stock cube in a food processor, and blend to a smooth paste, adding a little water if you need to. Divide between 2 soup or pasta bowls.
- Divide the remaining peas, hot grains and ham between the bowls and pour over enough boiling water to almost fill the bowls. Stir and leave for 2 mins to heat through.
- Stir in the spring onion greens and remaining mint leaves, season well with pepper and top with some pea shoots.
