A simple product like peas can be the main ingredient in many dishes. However, a simple pea soup can be prepared so that no delicacy can be compared with it in taste.
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Traditional pea soup is cooked by analogy with all other soups: meat, potatoes, peas, seasonings. But with the same ingredients you can cook a completely unique soup, which will be a culinary revolution on the scale of a single family.
In ancient Rome and Greece, only poor people ate peas, but in France of the 16th century, peas were served only at the royal table.
To make soup you will need a pan with a thick bottom. You can take a large goose body. Of the ingredients, you need a glass of dried peas, 300-400 grams of smoked pork ribs, you can take beef or lamb, but pork is a classic of the genre, pork is best combined with peas. Next, you need 2-3 varieties of sausage, 100 grams of each variety, you can do without sausages, then meat lovers will have to be content with gnawing seeds. Take a small piece of loin or other meat product, but to have a piece of lard. One onion and one carrot come in handy. You can take a couple of potatoes. The classic pea soup is cooked without potatoes, but for some, the presence of this root vegetable in the soup is important, so it will not be a crime to cook pea soup with potatoes. Salt to taste. Greens.
In order to simplify the cooking process as much as possible, you should prepare all the ingredients in advance - peel, chop, crumble. Arrange prepared foods on plates in the order of use.
To speed up the cooking process, peas can be soaked in water.
When soaking, peas increase several times, which should be considered when choosing a container. Otherwise, the pea mass will simply fall out of the dishes.
So. Sausage, loin cut into cubes. The sausage can be folded together, put the loin aside. Cut smoked ribs into pieces of 5-8 centimeters. Cut the onion into half rings, cut the carrots into small cubes, and potatoes, if any, are also cut into cubes. Prepare boiling water - 2-2.5 liters.
Put a pot on the fire and heat. Put chopped loin in a heated pan. Fry until fat is melted. When fat appears, put the ribs and sausage, fry until half cooked. Raw smoked ribs will have to be fried a little longer, so you should put them up to the sausage. Put carrot cubes to meat products.
Fry carrots until soft and do not burn. Lastly add the onion. Fry everything over high heat, constantly stirring.
Pour peas into the finished gift and mix thoroughly. Pour boiling water over everything. If potatoes are supposed in the recipe, then it is filled with boiling water. After the soup boils, salt and reduce the heat. Soup should not boil. Only slight disturbance on the surface should be observed. You need to stew soup long enough - forty minutes or even an hour. Before serving, put finely chopped greens in plates, but this is no longer necessary.