Green Pea or Fava Bean Puree

Name: Green Pea or Fava Bean Puree
Yield: makes 1 1/2 cups
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons butter; 1 small yellow or white onion, finely chopped; 1 cup Vegetable Stock (p. 204) or water; 1 sprig tarragon; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1 cup shelled, blanched English peas, or blanched, peeled fresh fava beans (for blanching technique, see p. 118)

December 14, 2011

This is a good way to make the most of a small amount of peas (or favas). Serve alongside some wild mushrooms sautéed with a little dice of bacon for an easy springtime starter. By the way, if, in a following life, I could come back as any vegetable, I think I would be a fava bean, so I could slumber inside that velvety soft pod. Just a thought.

Cooks' Note

As with the other vegetable purees, this can be thinned to sauce consistency with a little stock, water, or cream.

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