Try our delicious lovage soup recipe, featuring fresh peas and the unique flavour of the lovage herb. It’s a perfect dish for a cool day!
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It’s the time of year when our diet is largely dictated by what appears in our weekly organic CSA veg box. Our veg box producers say it’s been a slow year for growing due to cold weather and rain, but we now receive weekly deliveries.
It’s peak growing season in Shetland right now.
Our last veggie box contained something new to me: lovage herb.
What is lovage?
This herb resembles flat-leaf Italian parsley but has a flavour reminiscent of parsley and celery with a hint of aniseed and curry.
It goes very well with chicken, eggs, and fresh pea soup.
I didn’t waste my gorgeous veg box peas in this soup, no way. My veg box peas are harvested the day before delivery and they are like gold in our house – they barely last an hour after delivery, being eaten, raw, straight from the pods like sweeties.
This lovage soup recipe was made from supermarket pea pods which, I have to say, don’t hold a candle to the veg box peas for freshness and taste, but they work well in this summer soup.
I also used rooster potatoes as a thickener. Adding a few potatoes to a puréed soup adds a delicious creaminess without being heavy—perfect for summer.
This is a perfect summer soup recipe, I think. Flavoured with a regular brown onion and a few spring onions, plenty of gorgeous freshly shelled peas and a generous handful of lovage, it goes down very, very well. I served this lovage soup with herbed potato bannocks, pictured above and below.
Recipe Difficulty Levels
Easy
Requires basic cooking skills and ingredients you most likely already have in your kitchen.
Moderate
Requires more experience, preparation and/or cooking time. You may have to source special ingredients.
Challenging
Recipes requiring more advanced skills and experience and maybe some special equipment.
Pea, Potato and Lovage Soup
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 medium onion peeled and coarsely chopped
- 1 clove garlic crushed
- 2 large spring onions finely chopped
- 3 medium rooster potatoes peeled and chopped
- 500 grams fresh garden peas
- 1.5 litres chicken stock
- 30 grams lovage chopped
- 100 ml double cream
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Instructions
- Heat 2 tbsp butter in a large soup pan and gently cook 1 medium onion, coarsely chopped, 1 clove garlic, chopped, and 2 large spring onions, chopped until they begin to soften.
- Add 3 medium rooster potatoes, peeled and cubed, and stir well to coat.
- Add 1.5 litres chicken stock and leave to simmer for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, remove the peas from their pods.
- Add 500 grams fresh garden peas to the soup and simmer for a further 5 minutes.
- Add 30 grams lovage and simmer gently for a further 5-10 minutes until all the vegetables are tender.
- Transfer the soup to a high speed blender and blend until it reaches a smooth consistency.
- Return to the heat and stir in 100 ml double cream. Do not allow to boil.
- Serve with lovage leaves scattered across the top.
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Loving the gadgets… that masher looks fab! Great soup recipe too… I’ve never tried using lovage in my cooking before but it sounds like a wonderful flavour. Thanks for hooking up with Simple and in Season this month 🙂 xxx
This looks gorgeous! I’ve never made a pea soup before but I would like to. Not sure it would look as good as yours though
Oh this looks gooorgeous, yum. Love the look of that unusual potato masher – mine is useless so must give that one a try!
this is an absolutely gorgeous bowl of soup! Definitely something I want in my belly!
Like the look of The Strip² – have failed dismally with spiralisers and think this would make strips of veg much more easily. You’ll never part me from my potato ricer for mash though. Gorgeous pic of lovely soup – really inspiring.
I’m a fan of chilled corn soup in the summer months, although this one looks so delicious and one we would love in my household. Those gadgets look fantastic too!
Your soup looks so beautiful in that white bowl strewn with lovage:-) I don’t think I have ever had lovage before but I am a big fan of Albert Bartlett potatoes! Those utensils look really fun and functional so will be checking those out:=_
What a stunning soup…and that Spudnik! I need one 🙂
Ohhhh I love a good soup! This one looks like it’s packed with flavor and the texture looks so creamy!
What a gorgeous colour the soup is, love the fresh summer flavours and the rolls look delicious.
What a lovely looking soup! I adore pea soup and I think the lovage would be wonderful with the peas. I just need to figure out where I can find some. 😉
Oh yum! Strangely I’ve got a pot of potato & roast garlic soup cooking as we speak. kitchen smells gret! 😀
Janie x
The soup looks delicious, I have never heard of lovage, but totally agree with the peas, we grew our own last year, and they are SO much better than the supermarket, the children used to just go and help themselves, these are definitely on the list for growing again next year.
The masher looks really good. I’d love to try this but can never find lovage anywhere 😉
I’ve learnt so much from reading this! Firstly I didn’t know you could eat peas raw straight from the pod! Well I suppose I knew but didn’t think it would be nice! Second I didn’t know what lovage was. Thank you for educating me!!
I love the kitchen gadgets, that masher looks amazing! Potato based soups are my favourite so I will be trying this out! x
I am not usually a soup person but I think I will have to try this one x
This looks really delicious. The colour is really pretty too.
This sounds and looks like the most delicious soup, definitely one I’d like to make myself xxx
That looks so yummy. I haven’t made a soup in a very long time! Going to make some next week.
This looks amazing! I’m in love with your photography too!
This looks so delicious! I used to hate peas but love them now. I tried making a pea soup recently but it didn’t look half as good as this!
This looks like such a comforting soup. Good quality potatoes are so important too, especially when they are the star of the dish like this.
Yes! Give me all of the soup. I’d quite happily eat it at every meal. This recipe looks delicious. I love the utensils too. Clever designs.
Definitely going to give this a try in the winter! Looks so good and the colour is so pretty.
Ashleigh x
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I think it might be rather difficult to obtain peas in their pod and lovage herb in the winter as they’re summer produce. It is a rather lovely green colour, isn’t it! 🙂
Love peas, love potatoes – perfect combo! Add a bit of bacon in and you’re dancing.
Also loving the utensils; I like funky design combined with practicality!
Oh I love pea soup and this looks gorgeous! I also think that the potato bannocks look amazing, so fresh and soft. LOVE the kitchen gadgets too, I’m a total sucker for stuff like this 🙂
Oh this looks delicious. I love making soup, I usually try and make a big pot so it lasts for lunches throughout the week xx
This would be so much fun to try. I’ve never made a soup like this but it does sound good.
I don’t really have a favourite summer soup as we tend to eat more soup in winter – I love chicken soup! YUM!
Ooh this soup looks heavenly and I am a big fan of soup too. I like that it is healthy and fresh x x
The photography in this post has been drooling your presentation is impeccable (oh and the soup sounds tasty too!)
This is too pretty to eat! I love the color. Yummy!
xoxo, Candice
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Wow this is exactly how a soup should look, I bet it’s really rich and creamy x
I’m not a fan of pea soup – but my husband like them so I will show him this recipe. xx
This looks so good i wish i had someone who could cook this for me haha! im actually so bad at cooking i could burn cereal haha! thats how bad i am
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I want to try this recipe, I love potatoes in soup!
This is one of my favourite soups, I love homemade soups. I love your chopping board and the spudnik and bowl, I need these in my life x
I love the look of those potatoes, will watch out for them the next time we go shopping and that recipe looks divine too! 🙂
I am loving these products they look so stylish and easy to use. The recipes sounds delicious x
That does look perfect for a lunchtime meal
Those herby potato bannocks look amazing, I bet they taste great dipped into that soup!
Oh I’m liking the look of the kitchen gadgets, I’m not a fan of green peas but this soup looks lovely right now! x