Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting a lovely farm in Worcester called MWW as a guest of the Co-op.
Celebrating the best of British seasonal produce, they invited me on a behind-the-scenes farm tour. What a treat!
I grew up in south Shropshire in a tiny village. A rural and predominantly agricultural area. Lots of my friends grew up on small holdings or farms, so I feel at home in that environment.
MWW is a large but very attractive farm, with big and spacious fields in the beautiful Worcester countryside. It is based on the traditional mixed farm principles with vegetable cropping to provide a healthy nutrient rich rotation.
The farm grows a broad mix of vegetables such as peas, broad, runner, and dwarf beans, purple sprouting broccoli, pak choi, choi sum, onions, asparagus, butternut squash and more traditional cereals.
All aspects of production, from seed to Co-op shelves, are controlled at MWW. It was fascinating to see the crop rotation in practice, and the speed from pick, to pack, to the Co-op shelves. Which means super fresh veggies for you and me!
The team gave me a big box to take away, filled with courgettes, runner beans, tender stem broccoli, pak choi etc. This gorgeous box inspired me to make two delicious seasonal dishes.
My first; courgette, pea and mint soup with tenderstem broccoli and pak choi pesto on fresh bread. I don’t think it gets much better than that. Fresh greens bursting with flavour and goodness.
As you know, I am pretty obsessed with packing as many veg into my meals as possible, so I made tenderstem pesto to be dolloped onto sourdough toast.
I added lots of nutritional yeast for a cheesy flavour and B-vits. And as my box of goodies included some pak choi, I popped a handful into the mix as well. Delicious!
I hope you enjoy my fresh and delicious recipe! I will have another one for you soon.
Love, Niki xx
Laura Mayne
Hi , I made this soup for us this evening. It was truly delicious and also nutritious. Thank you for the recipe.
Niki
So happy you liked it xx
jane
I’m a terrible cook, so I’m always on the lookout for simple, but delicious, vegan recipes. This soup meets both criteria, absolutely perfect!
Niki
So happy you liked it!
Love, Niki xxx
Pat
Thank you so much for this wonderful soup! I’ve tried several courgette soup recipes over the years but this one is by far the best and will now be my go-to courgette soup recipe. Not only is the flavour combination delicious but the soup also looks beautiful so I’m looking forward to serving it to guests.
I feel I can now relax in the knowledge that if the annual courgette glut from our allotment gets the better of us, I simply make a big pan of this soup and freeze it in portions – perfect!
Thank you again 🙂
Niki
Hi Pat
That’s fantastic! I’m so happy you like my recipe. I love it too.
Love, Niki xx
Cassie Autumn Tran
What a beautiful co-op! Freshly grown vegetables are the best kinds 🙂 This soup looks wonderful too!
Niki
Thank you so much Cassie!
They truly are. xxx