Name: Chilled pea and avo soup
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Boil
Ingredients: 500 g peas baby; 1 leeks bunch, finely sliced; 1 Tbs butter; 2 cup stock vegetable or chicken; fresh mint handful; lemon zest and juice; avocado; salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste; 100 g goat's milk cheese chevin, to serve; lemon zest only

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Ingredients (10)

500 g	peas — baby
1	leeks — bunch, finely sliced
1 Tbs	butter
2 cup	stock — vegetable or chicken
	fresh mint — handful
	lemon — zest and juice
	avocado
	salt and freshly ground black pepper — to taste
100 g	goat's milk cheese — chevin, to serve
	lemon — zest only

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Method:

Pour boiling water over the peas and allow to stand for 2 minutes(no longer) then rinse immediately with ice cold water and drain. Set aside.

In a pot, fry the leeks in butter until soft and fragrant. Add stock and simmer for 5 minutes.

Place the peas in a blender and blitz until pureed add the stock slowly until the desired consistency is reached.

Add the lemon juice, zest, mint and avo and blend until smooth.

Season with salt and lots of pepper.

Serve warm or chilled topped with crumbled goats cheese and lemon zest.

Delicious with generously buttered seed bread.

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