Asparagus soup

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Cream of asparagus soup

Ingredients

  • Onions
  • Garlic
  • Butter/olive oil
  • Couple packs asparagus (700-900g)
  • Stock (veg)
  • Single cream
  • Chopped herbs
  • Salt/pepper

Method

Sweat some onions and a couple of cloves of garlic in some ghee/butter + olive oil for about 5 minutes over a low heat, don't brown.

Add asparagus chopped to about an inch and a half long (couple of packs, around 700-900g) sweat for 5 minutes more

Add vegtable stock (a pint or so), simmer for 10 minutes until asparagus is soft

season

blitz

stir in some chopped herbs (eg corriander) and season

add about 150ml of single cream and reheat very gentally so it doesn't split.

Eat.