Asparagus and green peppercorn soup

Posted by petra08 on May 14, 2013 · 7 Comments 

I adore to pick produce from the allotment and nothing ever tastes as good as when picked and cooked within an hour! Most of the seeds are now down, the onions have come up and the broad beans are flowering. It should be time next weekend to get some plants and when they are in the allotment is full and all we can do is to take care of it and wait! There is something all year around and today we picked asparagus, chive and spinach, a perfect base for a soup.

Asparagus and fresh green peppercorn soup, serves 2 as a starter or snack

• 1 bunch of asparagus 
• 2 bunches of fresh green peppercorns
• 1 handful of spinach
• 1 apple
• 4 dl chicken stock

Garnish 

• chive and wild garlic flowers
• raw asparagus tips

Cut up the asparagus, rinse the peppercorns and the spinach and steam for 6 minutes. Cut the asparagus tips in half for serving and add them raw to the soup.

Peel the apple and remove the core, the apple is not necessary but it adds some sweetness and gives the soup more body. Place it in a blender with the chicken stock and the steamed veg. Remove the core from the green peppercorns before adding and pour in to bowls. Add the garnish and serve.

The green peppercorns adds their own flavor a nice kick without overpowering the flavors of the spinach and the asparagus and the raw asparagus tips adds texture.

 

I have entered this to the great  1 Ingredient challenge, hosted by Laura at How to Cook Good Food and Nazima and Pierre’s Frangalise Kitchen. It was asparagus this month I could not resist!

Filed under Allotment/Veg, Apples, Asparagus, Fruit, Recipe, Spinach · Tagged with asparagus soup, chive flowers, fresh green peppercorn, green peppercorns, raw asparagus tips