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Edamame & pea soup

Edamame & pea soup

Healthy and full of vitamins, this soup is also a great winter warmer and it's made with soya, so it's vegan too!

Serves: 4
Per serving:

Total calories: 129 kcal
(g)
Total fat: 5.5
Saturated fat: 0.7
Polyunsaturated fat: 2.6
Monounsaturated fat: 1.0
Carbohydrates: 8.3
Sugar: 3.2
Total Protein: 12
(Soya protein: 8.5)

What you need:

  • 200g/7oz frozen soya beans (also called edamame beans)
  • 200g/7oz frozen peas
  • 500ml/18floz hot vegetable stock
  • 6 spring onions, trimmed and chopped
  • 1 small bunch basil leaves
  • 1 handful (50g/2oz) rocket leaves
  • 300ml/½pt Alpro soya Light alternative to milk

What you do:

  1. Put the frozen soya beans, frozen peas, vegetable stock and spring onions together in a pan. Bring to the boil and simmer for five mins.
  2. Add the basil and rocket leaves and Alpro soya Light. Blend half of the mixture until smooth, leave half of the soup chunky. Combine and warm through to serve.

Useful tip:

Make up this and freeze into individual portions so you've plenty of low cal, low cholesterol soup portions ready when you feel peckish.

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