Ingredients
The following ingredients have 7 Servings
- green trimmings from 1 leek, rinsed well and chopped (from the leeks below)
- 2 cups pea pods (from the peas below)
- 1 carrot, roughly chopped
- 1 celery stalk or half a small fennel bulb, roughly chopped
- 1 yellow or russet potato, scrubbed and roughly chopped, plus the peels from the potato below
- 8 cups water
- white and light green parts of 2 large leeks, sliced
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 large yellow potato, peeled and diced
- 1 teaspoon fine sea or kosher salt
- 4 cups shelled fresh peas (from about 4 pounds fresh peas)or 2 (10 ounce)bags frozen peas
- 4 cups washed and chopped lettuce (preferably romaine or little gems)
- 1/2 cup mint leaves
- juice of 1 lemon, or to taste
- 1/2 cup crème fraîche
- mint leaves
- fresh or blanched peas
- croutons
