Pea & ham soup with salami bites

Detailed step-by-step description of how to cook the dish "Pea & ham soup with salami bites". Try it by all means

Recipe «Pea & ham soup with salami bites» presented in category Recipes / Soups, to prepare this dish you will need no more 15 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author sheff would need: 50g unsalted butter, 1 onion, finely chopped, 225g potatoes, chopped, 900ml chicken stock, 350g frozen peas , 100g Primo Honey-Cured Leg Ham, thinly sliced, 150ml thickened cream, plus extra to serve, 1 tbsp each chopped flat-leaf parsley and mint , 2 sheets puff pastry, 1 tbsp basil pesto or sun-dried tomato pesto, 100g Primo Hungarian Salami.

Ingredients:

• 50g unsalted butter 
• 1 onion, finely chopped 
• 225g potatoes, chopped 
• 900ml chicken stock 
• 350g frozen peas 
• 100g Primo Honey-Cured Leg Ham, thinly sliced 
• 150ml thickened cream, plus extra to serve 
• 1 tbsp each chopped flat-leaf parsley and mint 
• 2 sheets puff pastry 
• 1 tbsp basil pesto or sun-dried tomato pesto 
• 100g Primo Hungarian Salami 

Instructions

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add onion and cook until soft. Add potatoes and cook, stirring, for 1-2 minutes. Add stock and cook for 10 minutes or until potatoes are soft.
2. Add peas, bring to the boil and cook for 3 minutes. Process in a blender until smooth. Stir in half the ham, and season with salt and pepper. Stir in cream and herbs, then heat through.
3. Meanwhile, to make salami bites, preheat the oven to 180°C.
4. Lay pastry on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Prick the pastry base all over with a fork and bake for 5 minutes.
5. Remove from oven and spread with pesto. Lay salami in overlapping slices over pesto. Bake for a further 10 minutes or until golden. Remove from the oven, slice each sheet in half then cut into 3cm strips.
6. Serve the soup with extra cream, garnish with remaining ham and season with pepper. Serve with salami bites.