Pea Soup With Black-Cat Croutons - W

"Every dream you'd see a black cat floating in your soup? Well you can now! And a tasty tidbit it will be. You might want to use those party sized pumpernickle loaves. The small sliced ones."
 
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Ready In:
2hrs 20mins
Ingredients:
17
Serves:
8
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ingredients

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directions

  • MAKE SOUP:

  • Sauté bacon in large pot over medium-high heat until crisp and brown. Remove and set aside.
  • Add onion, carrot and celery to pan; sauté until vegetables begin to soften.
  • Add garlic; sauté for 1 minute.
  • Add broth, water, peas, bay leaves and thyme; bring to a boil.
  • Reduce heat to medium-low, partially cover pot and simmer until vegetables are tender and peas fall apart, stirring occasionally, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
  • REMOVE BAY LEAVES!
  • Puree 5 cups soup in batches in blender and return to pot.
  • Stir in salt and season with pepper to taste.
  • MAKE CROUTONS:

  • Preheat oven to 300ºF.
  • Remove pumpernickel slices from freezer and let thaw for 5 minutes.
  • Mix butter with olive oil in a small bowl.
  • Use a cat cookie cutter to cut a shape from each partially frozen slice of bread.
  • Lightly brush cutouts with butter mixture and arrange on a cookie sheet.
  • Bake until crisp, about 15 minutes. Cool croutons in pan on a rack.
  • To serve, ladle soup into bowls. Crumble reserved bacon on top.
  • Add a cat crouton and a dollop of sour cream to each bowl.

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