Cook the pea porridge for 50 minutes to 1 hour.
How to cook pea porridge
Products
Dry unshelled peas – 2 cups
Salt – 1,5 teaspoons
Water – 6 glasses
Cooking pea porridge
1. Pour 2 cups dry peas into a colander and rinse thoroughly with water.
2. Pour the peas into a deep bowl, pour 3 glasses of cold water, let stand for 5 hours.
3. Drain off unabsorbed water, rinse the peas again.
4. Pour the swollen peas into a saucepan with a thick bottom, pour 3 glasses of cold water.
5. Put a saucepan over medium heat, bring to a boil, remove the resulting foam.
6. Reduce heat and cook porridge for 30 minutes.
7. Pour 1,5 teaspoons of salt into the porridge, mix, cook for another 20-30 minutes.
8. Mash the ready (boiled and no longer crunchy) peas with a crush to make mashed potatoes.
Fkusnofakty about pea porridge
You can cook a pea directly in the water in which the peas have been soaked.
The ideal pot for peas is thick-walled and with a thick bottom. In such a saucepan, the peas will not burn and will cook evenly.
Plain pea porridge can be served with fried onions or carrots.
Serve the pea porridge, sprinkled with olive oil, cream or melted lard with cracklings on top.
Pea porridge is eaten both hot and cold.
See all the rules for boiling peas.
Pea porridge with meat
Products
Dry peas – 2 cups
Water – 6 glasses
Pork pulp – 500 grams
Onions – 2 pieces
Salt – 2 teaspoons
Ground black pepper – half a teaspoon
Sunflower oil – 2 tablespoons
How to cook pea porridge with meat
1. Wash 2 cups of dry peas, pour 3 cups of cold water, leave for 5 hours to swell.
2. Wash the meat and cut into cubes.
3. Peel 2 onions and cut into half rings.
4. Transfer the peas to a saucepan, add 3 cups of water and cook for 30 minutes, then add 1 teaspoon of salt and cook for another 30 minutes. Mash the boiled peas with a crush.
5. Pour 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil into a frying pan, heat for 1 minute over medium heat, add meat, fry for 5 minutes.
6. Stir the meat cubes and fry for another 5 minutes.
7. Add the onion to the pan, fry, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes.
8. Add half a teaspoon of ground chili and 1 teaspoon of salt, stir, cover the pan, reduce heat, simmer for 5 minutes.
9. Add meat and onions to a saucepan with ready-made pea porridge, mix and heat for 2 minutes.
You don’t need to mix the meat with onions with the pea porridge – just put it on top.