Hearty Pea And Spinach Soup Recipes

HEARTY SPINACH AND CHICKPEA SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, bring 4 cups of water to a rapid boil. Stir in brown rice and return to a boil; reduce heat to a simmer and cover. Cook, without lifting lid, for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a large saucepan or Dutch oven, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion and cook, stirring frequently, until tender, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally, until mushrooms are tender, about 5 minutes. Add broth and rosemary; bring to a boil. Cover and remove from heat.
• Check rice after 30 minutes; if it's not yet tender, cover and continue cooking, up to 10 more minutes. Stir 2 cups cooked rice and chickpeas into the broth; return to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, cover, and continue cooking for 5 more minutes to allow flavors to blend.
• Stir in spinach and cook, uncovered, until just wilted, about 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper. Garnish with cheese; serve immediately.

QUICK SPINACH AND PEA SOUP

Steps:

• In a medium pot heat up 2 tablespoons of the oil, add the chopped onion, garlic and cubed potato. Cook over a medium heat for 3 minutes stirring often.
• Add half of the vegetable stock, cover and bring to the boil then simmer for about 10 minutes or until the potatoes are fully cooked.
• Add the spinach, frozen peas and the rest of the stock, cover and bring to the boil again then simmer for 3 minutes.
• Remove from the heat, puree, adjust the seasoning if needed and serve.

HEARTY PEA-AND-SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onions, garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, and a 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Cook, stirring, 3 to 5 minutes. Add stock, and bring to a boil.
• Add peas, and return to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until peas are tender and bright green, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in spinach. Cover, and cook, stirring occasionally, until spinach has wilted, 2 to 3 minutes. Let cool slightly.
• Working in batches, puree pea mixture in a blender, filling no more than halfway and adding up to 2 tablespoons water to each batch to achieve desired consistency. Stir in lemon juice, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Ladle soup into bowls.
• Fill a pastry or resealable plastic bag with cream. Snip off tip or corner of bag. Draw parallel horizontal lines across each serving of soup, spacing lines as desired.
• Starting at bottom, drag the tip of a wooden skewer upward through the rows of cream. Starting at top and spacing as desired, drag skewer downward through rows of cream. Repeat, reversing direction every other line. Serve immediately.

LOADED BLACK-EYED PEAS, SPINACH, AND VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic in the hot oil until lightly browned, about 10 minutes. Add vegetable broth and bring to a boil.
• Mix potatoes, black-eyed peas, carrots, zucchini, spinach, parsley, and bay leaves into the broth. Season with salt and black pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer soup until peas are tender and flavors have blended, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

HEARTY SPLIT PEA SOUP

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, combine all ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours or until peas and vegetables are tender.

GARLIC, SPINACH, AND CHICKPEA SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat, and stir in garlic and onion. Cook until tender. Season with cumin and coriander.
• Mix vegetable stock and potatoes into the pot, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer about 10 minutes. Stir in the garbanzo beans, and continue to cook until potatoes are tender.
• In a small bowl, blend the heavy cream, tahini, and corn meal. Mix into the soup.
• Stir spinach into the soup. Season with cayenne pepper and salt. Continue to cook until spinach is heated through.

HEARTY- MEATY BLACK EYE PEA SOUP FOR A CROWD

Steps:

• 1. You will need a huge pot to make this amount of soup, but you can cut back on most of the ingredients, and still enjoy a great soup. Add the ham chunks to the pot, along with the Rough chopped garlic and a few peppers gives the soup a head start in flavor. Add enough water to cover. I like to cook the Ham chunks about and hour, before adding in the dried peas and other veggies.
• 2. These are some of the ingredients I used to create the soup. I did not use the extra canned Black Eye peas. Pick through the dry peas for pebbles and grit, and discolored beans, then wash and add to the pot. Pour in the stock, and cover pot with lid while you prep the other veggies. Heat over medium low heat.
• 3. I like to cut the veggies into large pieces and add them after about the first hour of cooking, so they flavor the broth in the soup peppers, onions,& celery. Don't forget to add the Bay leaves.
• 4. That's a lot of onions but you are making a large pot of soup, and the onions and garlic adds lots of flavor especially when combined with the granulated onion and garlic and other herbs and spices.
• 5. This is a partial pix of the canned items. Open all the canned veggies & tomato paste and pour them into a large bowl,that way they can all go into the pot at the same time. I add them about half way through cooking time, after checking the peas to see if they are somewhat tender.
• 6. Allow them to cook over medium high heat. Adding the spices about midway through cooking. I prefer adding all of the spices into a medium size bowl and then adding them all at once into the soup, then stirring them thoroughly to blend together. NOTE: I PURPOSELY DID NOT ADD SALT TO THE RECIPE, it had enough salt for us FROM THE HAM & OTHER INGREDIENTS.
• 7. Cut the smoked Sausage on the bias to get more meat per serving. Then add to the pot.
• 8. The baby spinach only takes a few minutes to wilt into the hot soup broth. So add it during the final 10 minutes of cooking, and stir to blend into the soup.
• 9. This is what the soup looked like after cooking. So serve with your favorite bread and enjoy. I made a Southern Style corn Bread with corn and chopped green chilis. My daughter who does not care for Black Eyed peas, ate 2 bowls full, as did my husband, and I only had one bowl but had 2 pieces of corn Bread. It was great on a day when the temperature was in the teens.
• 10. This is the Corn Bread I served with it. Recipe is from a Watkins Keepsake Cookbook, and was a perfect accompaniment.

LEMONY PEA AND SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• In a large pot, heat 1/4 cup oil over medium. Add the leeks and celery, season with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 10 minutes.
• Stir in the vermouth and garlic, and cook until the liquid evaporates, about 3 minutes. Add the chicken stock and bring to a boil over high.
• Once it comes to a boil, add the frozen peas and cook, stirring occasionally, just until tender, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat, then stir in the spinach until wilted. Stir in the parsley.
• Working in batches, transfer to a high-power blender and purée until creamy. (A food processor or immersion blender would work as well, though may take a little longer.) Return to the pot and season to taste with salt and pepper. (Makes about 12 cups.)
• Divide among bowls. Add pasta, if using, then top with a dollop of crème fraiche. Drizzle generously - nay, recklessly! - with olive oil. Sprinkle with a pile of herbs; grate fresh lemon zest on top; and serve immediately.