Italian Pea Purée Soup with broccoli

Name: Italian Pea Purée Soup with broccoli
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: italian
Ingredients: 25 ml olive oil; 100 g onion; 120 g carrots; 100 g celery; 8 g garlic; 4 g salt; 1 g black pepper; 1100 ml water; 500 g green peas; 100 g halal-certified bread; 120 g broccoli

Italian Pea Purée Soup with broccoli. Book: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59047 Quantities and instructions were newly written for home cooking; this is not a historical transcription. Not…

25 ml olive oil
100 g onion
120 g carrots
100 g celery
8 g garlic
4 g salt
1 g black pepper
1100 ml water
500 g green peas
100 g halal-certified bread
120 g broccoli

Prepare the main vegetables in 1 cm pieces; chop onion, celery and garlic. Cut broccoli into 1 cm florets.
Heat oil and soften onion, celery and carrots for 6 minutes. Add garlic and stir for 30 seconds.
Add the main soup ingredients except bread, variation ingredient, water, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 25–30 minutes; stir occasionally.
Blend the soup carefully in small batches, avoiding steam buildup. Serve with toasted bread. Continue until all vegetables and any dried lentils are fully tender. Add hot water if needed, divide into four portions and serve. Cool leftovers rapidly in shallow containers and refrigerate at 4 °C within 2 hours.
Photo: Mx. Granger — Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pea_soup_at_Pea_Soup_Andersen%27s.jpg Licence: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en Resized and converted to JPEG; no crop. Pea soup illustration from another tradition; this formula uses fresh or frozen peas and different vegetables.

Original modern halal adaptation and ingredient variation inspired by Pellegrino Artusi, La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene, dish family: Italian Pea Purée Soup.