Put This In Your Vitamix And Blend It: Cool Pea Soup

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Put This In Your Vitamix And Blend It: Cool Pea Soup

Ingredients

• 1 stalk of celery - chopped into smaller pieces - about 1/2 an inch 
• 2 cups of fresh, raw English peas (I buy them in a bag in the fresh produce section at Trader Joe's)
• 1 ripe Hass avocado - cut into cubes
• 3-4 inches of a cucumber - chopped into smaller pieces
• 1 TB miso (vegan and gluten-free, if desired)
• 1 tsp Sriracha sauce (or something else spicy, e.g. cayenne)
• 2 TB hemp seeds
• 1 1/2 cups of water or almond milk

NOTES:

I have a Vita-Mix 5200 with the variable control dial.  And I used it to create this recipe.

If fresh peas are unavailable, you can experiment with frozen or canned, but the results are unknown.

STEP 1:

Put these things into the Vitamix and blend on HIGH until smooth:

• 1/2 of the avocado
• about 3/4 of the celery stalk
• 1/2 of the cucumber
• 1 cup of the peas
• miso
• Sriacha
• hemp seeds
• water/almond milk

STEP 2:

Add these things to the pure in the Vitamix and blend on variable setting 1-2, essentially pulse chopping them into the soup:

• the remaining half of the avocado
• the remaining celery (about 1/4 of the stalk)
• the remaining half of the cucumber
• 1 cup of peas
• any additional liquid to thin, if desired

(If you do not have a Vitamix with a variable control dial, you can complete STEP 2 with handy knife work or by using the pulse setting in a food processor.)

STEP 3:

Refrigerate for a couple of hours and serve chilled.