NoMa Social, one of New York’s hottest restaurants North of Manhattan, offers American, French, Italian, Latin American, and Spanish/Basque dishes. For a taste of spring, make this Spring Sweet Pea Soup recipe. It makes a lovely starter or, add bread and a salad for the perfect spring meal.

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Spring Sweet Pea Soup Recipe

Recipe courtesy NoMaSocial www.NoMaSocial.com

Ingredients:

2 pounds English peas
10 shallots sliced
1 pound butter
3 TBS tarragon
1.5 qt. chicken stock
Sugar as needed to tast
Salt & Pepper to taste
Crème fraiche
White truffle oil

Method:

Melt butter and add shallots, tarragon and sweat no color, until soft. Next add stock and bring to a boil, add peas and cook until just tender, adjust seasonings with sugar, salt and pepper use more or less sugar based on sweetness from peas. Add contents to a blender and puree until smooth, pass through a strainer pressing on solids to push through as much of soup as possible. Chill soup and garnish with more leaves of tarragon, crème fraiche, and truffle oil.

Chef’s suggestion: Another excellent addition would be fresh crab meat.