Grænertusúpa

Pea soup

This is the first real meal I've cooked in our new house - solid, nice everyday food, a thickened soup with carrots and frozen peas. The original recipe from the 1940s was for canned peas, but I like frozen peas Simply preferable and with a freezer compartment it also fits perfectly with today's storage.


Ingredients

1 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp flour
1000 ml hot meat broth
200 g frozen peas
250 g carrots
1 handful of parsley
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp coarse sea salt
1 pinch of black pepper


Preparation

Melt the butter in a large pot.

Add the flour and stir.

Pour in the hot meat broth in portions, stirring constantly.

Bring to the boil briefly, then reduce the heat.

Wash, peel and cut the carrots into thin slices.

Then add the carrots and frozen peas to the broth...

...and simmer over medium heat for about 10 minutes until the carrots are soft.

Wash, pick and chop the parsley.

Then add the parsley to the soup and season with salt, pepper and sugar to taste.

Then serve the soup with toasted white bread.

[Translated from here.]