New Year Recipes - Green Peas Soup with Wine

Ingredients:
1 tablespoon Butter
1 Onion, finely chopped
450 g Green peas
1 Carrot, cut into 4 pieces
1/2 teaspoon Thyme
Salt to taste
600 ml Beef stock
1 tablespoon Soya sauce
1 teaspoon Lemon juice
100 ml Sherry
2 teaspoon Arrowroot
150 ml Double cream, whipped
400 ml Sparkling dry white wine

Procedures:

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan.
2. Saute the onion.
3. Add the peas, carrot, thyme and salt.
4. Add the water until it covers the peas. Bring to the boil and simmer slowly for 40 minutes.
5. Bring the stock to the boil, add 95 ml sherry and soya sauce.
6. Remove the carrot from the water and drain the peas.
7. Puree the peas in a food processor. Mix it with stock and bring to the boil.
8. Add lemon juice and salt to taste.
9. Stir the arrowroot into the 5 ml sherry and add to the soup.
10. Heat the soup and slowly stir in the whipped cream. Do not mix too well.
11. Open the wine and pour into the hot soup. Stir slowly.
12. Serve warm.