Name: Quick green simmer soup
Yield: Serves 3–4
Ingredients: 2 tsp lime juice, plus ghee and Parmesan; 500 ml (2 cups) water or homemade bone broth; 200 g (4 cups) spinach leaves; ½ tsp sea salt; 1 tbsp ghee, plus extra for serving (optional); 1 clove garlic, finely chopped; 400 g (generous 2½ cups) frozen peas; 1½ tbsp ghee, plus 1 tsp each cumin and coriander seeds and pinch of asafoetida; spoonful of homemade yoghurt, plus 1 tsp smoked paprika, ½ tsp ground cinnamon or Aleppo chilli

Preparation info

Serves
3–4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

East by West

By Jasmine Hemsley

Published 2017

About

This is what I eat when I’ve just got home from travelling – whether that’s been up and down the UK on trains, over the UK on flights, or just in a studio shooting all day. Basically wherever there has been some green lacking and I’m in need of something easy to digest that’s quick so I can get to bed and catch up on some zzzs.

I’ve based this on spinach and green peas, because they are the easiest to get hold of. Both can be pulled out of your freezer if necessary – not the best, b