Don't reheat the soup once you have mixed in the yoghurt. If it gets too hot it will curdle in a most unattractive manner. Take about one-eighth of the blanched broad beans, chop roughly and set ...

How to make the hearty soup vegetable soup: Soak the fava beans, cranberry beans and chickpeas in a large bowl of water for at least eight hours before draining and rinsing well. Start by heating ...

This delicate soup is designed to let the tender spring ... Asparagus, artichokes, radishes, fava beans, sugar snaps, pea shoots, and many lettuces and greens will begin to show up at the farmers ...

A Green Vegetable Soup: Ingredients as above… but with green vegetables eg spinach, watercress, wild garlic, nettles, chard greens, radish leaves, broad bean shoots, kale, mustard greens ...

Blanch the broad beans in a pan of boiling water for 1 minute ... them all together in a blender or food processor. Serve the soup with the herbed oil and sprinkle with the cheese.

But the presence of other seasonal vegetables like tender carrots, white turnips, and fava beans (if you can get them) makes the stew reminiscent of vignole, the Roman soup designed to highlight ...

I have used broad beans here as they are in season now. Try to get the smaller pods if possible, as they will be more tender and you won't have to double skin them. This dish somehow manages to be ...