Green Pea and Spinach Soup

Spinach is rich in iron, calcium, folic acid, vitamin A & C. They are an inexpensive way of supplying necessary nutrition to our body.

Serves 2-3

Ingredients

2 tbsp vegetable oil

1 onion chopped

1 tbsp minced garlic & ginger

50g de-frozen green peas

50g de-frozen sweet corn

1 vegetable stock cube

Handful of fresh mint leaves

 300g spinach leaves roughly chopped

50g macaroni pasta

1 tbsp cream / yoghurt / milk

Salt and pepper to taste

Method

Heat oil in a large pan, fry onion and minced garlic and ginger for 2 minutes. Add stock cube one bowl of water, macaroni pasta and bring to boil.

Separately boil water in a sauce pan, when it’s boiling add ½ tsp salt, add spinach leaves, green peas and sweet corn. Leave it for a minute and drain water, set aside.

When macaroni is soft, add water, cream, salt and pepper to your taste. Turn off the heat add blanched spinach, sweet corn, green peas

Serve in soup bowls, garnish with mint leaves