How long to cook mashed pea soup?

1 hour.

How to make mashed pea soup

Products

Split peas – 1,5 cups

Smoked pork belly – 300 grams

Carrots – 1 piece

Onions – 1 thing

Vegetable oil – 3 tablespoons

Salt – 1 teaspoon without top

Parsley – a few leaves for decoration

Water – 5 glasses

How to make mashed pea soup

1. Pour 2 cups of split peas into a colander and rinse under running water.

2. Transfer the peas to a saucepan, add 2 glasses of water and leave for 3 hours.

3. Cut 1 onion into small pieces.

4. Grate 1 carrot on a coarse grater.

5. Cut 300 grams of smoked pork belly into small cubes.

6. In a saucepan with swollen peas, add 3 cups of water, put on medium heat.

7. Bring the contents of the pan to a boil, remove the foam.

8. Cook the peas for 40 minutes to 1 hour (depending on the variety and term of the peas) over low heat, stirring occasionally.

9. Pour 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil into a frying pan, put on medium heat, heat for 1 minute.

10. Put onions and carrots in a frying pan, fry over medium heat, stirring occasionally, for 7 minutes.

11. Put the fried onions and carrots in a saucepan with peas, add 1 teaspoon of salt and cook for another 10 minutes.

12. Remove the pot of peas from the heat and mash with a blender.

13. Pour 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil into a frying pan and add the brisket cubes, fry over high heat for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.

14. Add the brisket to a saucepan with mashed peas, warm up the puree soup for 3 minutes (or you can serve the brisket by placing it on plates).

15. Garnish the puree pea soup with parsley leaves.

Serve puree pea soup with white bread croutons.

Pea soup in a slow cooker

1. Soak 1,5 cups of peas in 2 liters of water directly in a multicooker for 3 hours, then cook in the “Buckwheat” or “Rice” mode for 1-1,5 hours.

2. After the peas are completely cooked, add the frying and grind with a blender.

Serve puree pea soup, garnished with parsley leaves, brisket pieces, and croutons.

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Delicious facts

How to improve the taste of pea soup

To make the pea soup more fatty and rich, you can cook it in chicken or meat broth, and for a lush pea soup, you can add 1 diced potato.

If the peas are not pre-soaked, then the cooking time should be increased to 1,5-2 hours. Ksati, when cooking peas, it is worth considering its packaging date and type – old peas are cooked longer than young peas, and split peas are cooked faster than whole peas.

Instead of bacon, you can add a little smoked sausage or fried mushrooms to the mashed pea soup.

How to fry croutons for pea soup

Cut the pieces of loaf into cubes with a side of 1-1,5 centimeters, put on a baking sheet and dry in the oven for 15 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. Or, you can fry croutons in a skillet without oil over low heat, stirring constantly. Read more on how to bake croutons.

About pea soup

– Freshly boiled pea puree soup looks liquid, but you just need to cool it a little and it will acquire a puree consistency.

– The calorie content of puree pea soup is 260 kcal / 100 grams.

– The average cost of food in Moscow for July 2019 for making pea puree soup with brisket is from 430 rubles.

– Puree pea soup can be kept in the refrigerator for 48 hours.