The best split pea soup recipe I ever made was the Hearty Pea Soup recipe in Laurel's Kitchen. It has baby limas and a little barley, so it doesn't taste like the usual split pea soup. You can also look on the package of split peas for standard pea soup recipes. If you improvise, soak the split peas in about three times their amount of water. After at least an hour, preferably longer, drain. Sauté onion and celery in a little oil. Add grated carrots. Then combine this mixture with the peas in a large soup kettle. Add about twice as much water. It takes about forty minutes to cook. The soup will get thick and absorb the water, so add more if you need it. When the soup is done, season with salt and pepper. Some recipes say to strain the soup so there won't be any of the outside of the peas, whatever you call it. I never did this.
Optional: cook the soup with a ham bone. Leave little pieces of ham in the soup, then remove the bone before serving. If you need a pea soup fix before you get around to making the soup, try a can of Anderson's split pea soup. Abby ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Watson" <tk.wat...@verizon.net> To: <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 2:07 PM Subject: [CnD] Split Pea Recipe Request Does anyone have a good split pea recipe? I also need to know if you need to soak them overnight. Thanks, Keith _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
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