Soup
Pea and Mint Soup
A bright green soup that tastes like the first warm week, ready before the bread is toasted.
- 30 min
- Serves 4
- green peas
- mint
Spring plate · A light lunch with friends
Green Soup Lunch
A bright soup, buttered radish toast and a strawberry salad, all ready in half an hour.
In what order
Start the soup, toast and top the bread while it simmers, and assemble the salad last.
The dishes
Side
Radishes with Butter on Toast
Cold radishes, soft butter and good salt on warm toast. Nothing else needed.
- 10 min
- Serves 4
- radishes
- chives
Salad
Strawberry Spinach Salad
Late-spring berries, tender spinach, salty feta and toasted walnuts.
- 15 min
- Serves 4
- strawberries
- spinach
One list for the lot
Shopping list for 4
Every dish scaled to 4 servings and merged by aisle. Salt, pepper and oil you probably have already.
Produce
- 1 bunchfresh chives
- 1 bunchfresh mint
- 2 clovesgarlic
- 4 cupsgreen peas
- 1lemon
- 2 bunchesradishes
- 1/2red onion
- 5 ozspinach
- 1 lbstrawberries
- 1yellow onion
Dairy and eggs
- 6 tbspbutter
- 4 ozfeta
- 1/2 cupplain yogurt
Bakery
- 8sourdough bread
Pantry
- 1 tbspapple cider vinegar
- 1 tbsphoney
- 3 tbspolive oil
- 4 cupsvegetable broth
- 1/2 cupwalnuts
Spices
- black pepper
- 1 3/4 tspsalt
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