How long piti to cook?

Cook piti for 1,5 hours. You must first soak the peas overnight.

How to cook piti

Products

Dried nokhud peas (large) – 200 grams

Lamb – (brisket, neck, shanks) – 500 grams

Fat tail fat – 70 grams

Potatoes – 3 tubers

Onions – 2 heads

Fresh cherry plum – 100 grams (can be replaced with 50 grams of dried)

Tomatoes – 3 pieces (can be replaced with 2 tablespoons of tomato paste)

Ground ginger – to taste

Pepper to taste

Salt – half a teaspoon

How to cook piti

1. Pour cold water over the peas so that they completely cover them, leave overnight.

2. Wash the lamb in cool running water, cut into cubes 3 centimeters thick.

3. Divide the lamb and the soaked peas evenly into the portion pots so that the pots are half full.

4. Pour a glass of boiling water over the meat and peas in each pot.

5. Place the closed pots in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for 40 minutes.

6. Peel the onions, cut into small cubes.

7. Wash the potatoes, peel, cut into 2 centimeters thick squares.

8. Cut the bacon into cubes 3 centimeters long and 5 millimeters thick.

9. Wash cherry plum, cut into pieces about 1 centimeter thick.

10. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes for 5 minutes, remove from the boiling water, remove the skin, cut into cubes 2 centimeters thick.

11. Remove the pots from the oven, put chopped onions, potatoes, cherry plums, bacon, tomatoes, a pinch of ginger, pepper, salt in each pot, add half a glass of water if necessary.

12. Put the pots back into the oven for 30 minutes.

Drink your soup cooked!

Delicious facts

– Piti soup is a popular Azerbaijani dish made from nokhud peas and lamb. The soup is prepared and served in portioned pots.

– If the piti soup has a thick consistency, eat it with a fork, if it is thin, eat it with a spoon.

– In Armenia, piti soup is known as “putuk”.

– Ordinary split peas are not suitable for piti, because it will soften and turn into mush.