Creamy Vegan Pea Soup with Crispy Capers

Name: Creamy Vegan Pea Soup with Crispy Capers
Ingredients: 35g vegan butter; 500g fresh or frozen garden peas; Salt and pepper; 300ml soy milk; 230ml (1 cup) vegetable stock; 100g capers; 100ml vegetable oil; Pea shoots

DIETARY – Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-free, Nut-free, Diabetic-friendly

This dish is inspired by an English summer. Yes, that’s right, a soup can be summery! Fresh garden peas are an underrated veggie but grow in abundance in the UK. A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to go and see peas being harvested and learned how to cook exciting, incredibly tasty dishes from what is often an overlooked member of the legume family. Picking and eating them fresh from the field shed new light on the humble pea, which is sweet and utterly addictive when eaten straight from the pod. Later that week, I was treated to a Michelin Star experience with chef George Blogg at Gravetye Manor in West Sussex, who served a pea velouté with crispy capers as an amuse-bouche. This two-bites-of-heaven dish was so good I have never forgotten it and just had to try and recreate it all these years later in an adapted vegan version.

In addition to capers, I always like to garnish this soup with pea shoots, which are readily available from most major supermarkets and greengrocers. Pea shoots are full of pea flavour, often more than the pea itself! They add yet another layer of taste to this flavour bomb of a dish, which couldn’t be easier to make. No experience is required to master this easy soup!

Some of you may think of soup as a boring bowl of food, but here at Deliciously Free, we focus entirely on flavour to ensure we live up to our name. Everything we create has to be lip-smackingly tasty and as close to the ‘real deal’ (non-allergen version) as possible, as we don’t want anyone to miss out on truly scrumptious food! This soup is vegan, vegetarian, free from nuts and gluten, and thanks to the minimal carbs, is diabetic-friendly too!

Our Creamy Vegan Pea Soup is indulgent, packed with flavour and absolutely sings with the addition of fried capers, which take on such an umami flavour once fried, you won’t eat capers any other way again. Once you’ve tried it, you’ll want pea soup every day!