Green Pea Soup with or without Turtle (Buttered)
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 1 turtle
- 1 carrot
- 1 parsley root
- 1 leek
- 1 celery
- 2 onion
- 13 peppercorns
- 4 stakan ripe shelled green peas
- 1/8 funt butter
- dill and parsley greens
Instructions
- Clean the turtle, boil with salt and roots, strain the broth.
- Cook peas in turtle broth until soft; sieve; thin with broth.
- Add fried parsley/leek and cut turtle; boil, add greens, serve. Without turtle, serve croutons separately.