Pea soup is a dish familiar to all of us that has a very long history. His recipe was known in ancient times. As it turned out, back in the II century BC such a soup was sold on the street of Athens. Even then, this incredibly delicious soup was very popular. Today, there are hundreds of different recipes on how to make pea soup. Which one you like best, you need to choose, trying different options.
How to cook pea soup is known in almost all countries of the world. Moreover, each nation has its own recipe. For example, in Italy dry wine and cheese are added to soup. In Mongolia - tomato juice and sour cream, and in Ukraine - a few cloves of garlic and cracked pork lard. There is a classic recipe that is accepted by almost all the cuisines of the world - pea soup with smoked meats. Still would! is it possible to find a better combination of tastes than smoked meat and peas?
Cooking pea soup
Now you will learn how to cook smoked pea soup. It is very pleasant that such a dish cannot be called high-calorie, but it tastes great.
Ingredients:
- one kilogram of veal on the bone;
- half a kilogram of peeled peas (not ground);
- 250 grams of smoked meats;
- 4 pieces of onions;
- 2 pieces of carrots;
- one kilogram of potatoes;
- one head of garlic;
- one bunch of green onions;
- 100 grams of vegetable oil;
- pepper, salt and bay leaf.
Cooking:
Cooking pea soup with smoked meats is quite simple, but still it takes a little preparation. First, peel the vegetables, rinse the veal and soak the peas.
Before cooking the soup, thoroughly rinse 5-7 times with peas. if this is not done, the taste of the soup will be far from the best. Leave the peas flooded with water, and let it stand until the moment when you need to put it in the pan.
Put the meat in a pan and fill it with cold water. Of course, you can cook vegetarian pea soup, but it will not be as tasty as smoked soup.
Mistresses with experience recommend cooking pea soup with veal on the bone. So it turns out the most delicious and rich. And calories in veal are less than in any other meat. In general, half the success of making pea soup depends on how tasty the broth will be.
Before cooking the broth, peel and wash the vegetables. Now cut the diced half of the onion and the straw into half the carrot. As soon as the water in the pan boils, pour the vegetables into it. Cook the meat for about 40 minutes, removing foam when necessary.
As soon as you understand that the meat is ready, take it out and put it on a plate - it must definitely cool down.
Pour the peas soaked in water into the pan and cook with the broth. At this time, separate the veal from the bone, cut it into small pieces and fill it in a pan where the peas are cooked. Grate the remaining carrots and cut into smoked cubes. Sauté them in vegetable oil. While they are fried, dice the remaining onions.
Pour onion in smoked meats, mix and fry everything again. As soon as the onion becomes golden, put the grated carrots in a frying pan and put everything to simmer for another 15 minutes.
While the ingredients are fried, cut the potatoes into slices and put it in the pan. Pea soup should boil for another 10 minutes, then season it with frying. Now mix again and cook for about 10 minutes. Then chop the green onions, peel the garlic and chop it in circles. Pour it all into the pan, adding bay leaf there.
Mix well again and let the soup boil for a few minutes. Then remove it from the fire, close the lid tightly and let it brew for a while. Everything, your culinary masterpiece is completely ready. Now you know how to make pea soup, and you see that doing this is not at all difficult.
Bon Appetit!