broad bean pod soup

Many, many years ago, I was treated to a bowl of soup by a Greek lady who laughed and scoffed that "You Brits" throw away the best part of the bean and just use the seeds!

The soup was absolutely scrumptious and I've always regretted not asking her for the recipe but I wasn't really much into cooking at the time.

Anyone got any recipes for broad bean pod soup?

 

Hi MD is this one any good?

900 g fresh young Broadbeans
1 small Onion, peeled and chopped
4 cloves Garlic, peeled and chopped
100 ml Olive Oil
1 litre water (approx)
100 ml Whipping Cream
1 small bunch of Mint, picked and sliced

Method

* Pod the broad beans, keeping their pods. Wash these well then chop them into small pieces.

* Sweat the Chopped onion and garlic in the olive oil for about 2 minutes.

* Add the shells of the beans then sweat for a further 3 minutes until soft.

* Cover with the water then bring to the boil.

* Simmer rapidly for about 5 minutes then add half of the beans

* Boil for a further five minutes then pur�©e and strain through a fine sieve.

* Blanch the remainder of the beans for 1 minutes then add to the pur�©ed soup along with the cream.

* Reboil, add the sliced mint and serve.

Serves 4

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sounds good, Dalbuie! will try tomorrow! (pity I don't have any home-grown broad beans, and will ahve to use Tesco's own! - I'll grow my own for later this year!)

 

Oh, thanks, Dalbuie! That does look good!