North Croatian Green Peas Soup

This is one of my grandmother recipes i have decipher from her manuscript. I am making the soup today, so this is how it goes:

Clean the green peas and put it into hot water for 5 minutes.

Grate of slice carrot and saut on butter.

After a while , mince onion and saut both on butter until onion is translucent.

Add finely sliced pancetta and saut not more than 5 minutes.

Add flour and fry about 2 minutes , than add cold water and make creamy liquid.

Cut green parts of spring onion , mince parsley and celery leaves and add into pot.

Add green pea and about 1 liter of beef stock.

Add salt and pepper.

Cook until green peas are soft.

When soft , remove green pea and blend it into puree.

You can blend it with stick blender so you do not have to remove geen pea.

Add thyme and cook 15 minutes.

At the end add sour cream and minced chive.

Serve with croutons.

green peas, onions, carrots, bacon, fresh parsley leaves, celery leaves, butter, flour, beef stock, sour cream, thyme, chives, salt, pepper