Try this easy recipe 

Lettuce and Pea Soup 

A light delicate soup capturing the flavours of Summer and using up spare lettuces!

Ingredients

40g or 1 1/2 oz butter

1 onion, chopped

1 large lettuce, shredded

15ml or 1tbsp plain flour

225g or 8oz shelled peas, or frozen peas, amount is approximate

450ml or 1/4pt stock, vegetable or chicken

450ml or 3/4pt milk

Salt and pepper

Variations

75ml or 3fl oz single/double cream, added just before serving

Garlic with the onion

Method

Melt butter, add onion and lettuce.  Stir, cover pan and cook over gentle heat for 10 minutes.

Stir in flour.  Add peas

Pour in stock and milk.  Season.  Simmer 20 minutes, do not allow to boil

Sieve or blend to your taste, smooth or chunky.

Return to the pan.  Adjust thickness of soup and seasoning.  Pour in cream now or on serving

Comment

Confession time – I use frozen peas; my home-grown ones never reach the kitchen!

The soup is easily adapted to quantities available, mine varies every time.   The quantities of onion, lettuce and peas can be adjusted as to what you have in the larder

Like-wise the percentages of stock versus milk can be adjusted; add more for a thinner soup, less for thicker soup

To make the soup richer, mix 2 egg yolks with the cream; then little warm soup and add this liaison to the soup before reheating.  Again, do not let soup boil