I so often seem to end up with a bag of salad in the fridge that's not fresh enough to use as salad and it drives me crazy throwing it away. So I googled (seem to say that a lot) and apparently lettuce soup is the thing to do.
Lettuce, Pea & Mint Soup
350g lettuce (any kind, and less is fine if that's what you have)
1 white onion
1 clove garlic, crushed
350g frozen peas
400g courgettes
1 pack mint (about 25g)
1 litre vegetable stock
1. Finely chop or food process the onion and courgettes (but separately).
2. Heat some olive oil and cook the onion for 5 minutes or until soft. Add the garlic and cook for another minute.
3. Add the peas, courgettes, mint, lettuce and stock.
4. Season and simmer for 15 minutes.
5. Blend until smooth, taste and season again if required.
The recipe I adapted this from was supposed to be 750g of peas and no courgettes but I only had 350g and many courgettes. It worked! But it's a good illustration of how soups are really flexible and you shouldn't worry too much about exact quantities. I loved this soup both hot and cold and it's a lovely summery flavour.
I also learnt something crazy from the wonderful lifehacker.com: when you have a whole lettuce, don't throw away the bottom stump that you cut off. If you plant it the lettuce will regrow! Credit to them for this photo and will take one when I've tried it myself!
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