Chilled pea soup with spicy crab meat topcook.tomathouse.com
Ingredients:
Soup
- 2 cups frozen green peas, thawed
- 1 can (400 g) of canned vegetable broth
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
Crab meat
- 2 tbsp. l. olive oil
- 1 tbsp sambal oelek (Asian chili sauce)
- Juice of half a lemon
- 1 cup fresh lump crab meat, sorted
- A quarter bunch of mint, finely chopped
Preparation:
- Make some soup. Combine the peas and vegetable broth in a blender and blend until smooth. With the blender running, slowly pour in the olive oil until the mixture becomes emulsified. Add half the lemon juice, then refrigerate the soup for 1 hour. Before serving, season with salt to taste and drizzle with the remaining lemon juice.
- Prepare the crab meat. In a bowl, combine olive oil, sambal oelek sauce, and lemon juice. Stir in the crab meat and mint and add a pinch of salt. Fill small cups or glasses about three-quarters full with the chilled pea soup. Garnish each serving with 1 heaping tablespoon of spicy crab meat and serve immediately.
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