For a long time, pea dishes were preferred for their unusual taste and useful properties. Almost all of us remember the taste of soups, mashed potatoes, pies and cereals from this wonderful vegetable. Such dishes were prepared in the school cafeteria, kindergarten and at home. Even at that time, our grandmothers and mothers understood how much varied food can be prepared from this outstanding product.
Currently, due to the large assortment of delicacies, peas have fallen into the background and are no longer so popular. True, classic pea soup is sometimes prepared from it according to simple recipes. Many do not even suspect that from such a wonderful vegetable you can easily cook jelly or make cutlets. Let's learn what can be cooked from peas. But first you need to find out how to choose it and weld it. This is all about the article.
What can be cooked from peas
Dry beans are some of the most affordable foods. They are in almost any grocery store. In addition, there is frozen green peas on sale, which is also actively used in cooking. Not everyone knows what delicious, varied and simple pea dishes can be made. In Russian cuisine alone, the list of products from this bean totals more than 10 basic items.
The main dishes of peas include: soup, mashed potatoes, pancakes, meatballs, porridge, pies, jelly, croquettes, cheese, tortillas. This is not a complete list. It is worth noting that any dish of peas will be not only tasty, but also healthy, help to improve the condition of the body and clean it of harmful substances, will become indispensable in fasting. Peas are considered a dietary dish, because 100 grams of this product accounts for only about 40 kcal. The vegetable contains a large amount of vitamins and minerals necessary for the body of each person.
How to soak peas for soup
This is done to make the finished dish rich and aromatic. Thanks to proper soaking, peas will retain all the beneficial properties, gain a more sophisticated taste and aroma. On average, this procedure takes about 7 hours, but there are subtleties. The temperature of the room where the soaked peas will be located should not be higher than +20 degrees, but not lower than 0. If this rule is violated, then in the first case the vegetable will become acidic. Boil it will be impossible. In the second case, peas will remain stiff, so it will have to be cooked much longer, which will negatively affect the taste and quality of the finished dish. If it is not possible to leave the soaked peas at a suitable temperature, then it is better to reduce or increase the residence time of the vegetable in water. If the room temperature is above +20 degrees, it is recommended to soak peas for no more than 4 hours. At low temperatures, it should be in the water for more than 8 hours.
The easiest pea soaking recipe
It does not require special skills and equipment, easy to execute. How to soak peas for soup? You need to take about 3 liters of water per 1 kg of peas. It should be noted that the beans swell and greatly increase in volume. Therefore, it is better to take more water.
Soaking Procedure:
- It is necessary to take an enamel pan, pour peas into it and pour it with water. In this case, all light trash will float to the surface.
- Rinse the vegetable well, remove excess debris and spoiled beans.
- Pour the peas with water so that it completely covers all the grains.
- Clean in a cool place for 7 hours.
- When the peas swell, drain all the water from it and rinse again.
Vegetable is recommended to be used immediately after the soaking process.
It is worth knowing that in the process of soaking, peas should not be mixed. If you constantly disturb the vegetable left in the water, it will turn sour and become unsuitable for further cooking.
It should also be remembered that salt is added to peas for soup only when it is practically cooked. You can not add it neither when soaking, nor when cooking. From this, peas turn into a mushy mass.
Pea and Smoked Soup
This dish is relevant in the cold season, when hearty and nutritious foods are especially needed. The recipe for a classic pea soup with smoked ribs is very simple. The dish is easy to prepare, does not require a lot of time and is sure to delight the whole family.
Ingredients:
- Potato - 500 grams.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Smoked pork ribs - 400 grams.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Dry peas - 600 grams.
- Garlic - 3 cloves.
- Fresh herbs to taste.
- Refined vegetable oil - 50 ml.
- Salt, pepper, spices - to taste.
Step-by-step preparation:
- Pour dry peas in a suitable bowl, clean from debris and bad grains, rinse several times under running water.
- Pour into a saucepan for 2-3 liters, completely fill all the beans with water and put in a cool, darkened place for 6-7 hours.
- Cut the smoked pork ribs into pieces, rinse with water and cook for 60-80 minutes on medium heat. The degree of readiness of the meat is determined by how easily it is separated from the bone.
- When the ribs are ready, they must be removed from the pan, separated from the bone and set aside.
- Filter the resulting broth through a sieve and put on the fire again, add soaked peas to it and cook for half an hour.
- Peel onions, carrots and potatoes, wash well.
- Cut the potatoes into medium cubes, chop the remaining vegetables.
- Heat oil in a pan and fry onions and carrots on it until golden brown.
- When the peas are boiled, add chopped potatoes and prepared vegetables to the meat broth. Boil for 25-30 minutes.
- 5 minutes before cooking, put the meat in the soup, salt, pepper, add chopped garlic.
When serving, pea soup with smoked ribs is decorated with fresh herbs, which should be washed well and chopped in advance.
Pea porridge with meat
Beans for such a dish should also be prepared in advance. How to soak peas for soup or porridge, we examined above. For such a dish can use absolutely any meat. Various vegetables and spices are also added. The advantage of this bean meal is not only the simplicity of its preparation. The main advantage is that peas can be digested to any state. This will not spoil either its appearance or taste.
Ingredients:
- Filtered water - 1.5 liters.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Dry peas (chopped) - 400 grams.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Beef - 500 grams.
- Salt, pepper, refined sunflower oil, fresh herbs.
Cooking process:
- Rinse thoroughly chopped dry peas, soak for 5-6 hours.
- Cut the beef at room temperature into small pieces, rinse with water, cook for 1.5-2.5 hours (cooking time depends on the quality of the meat).
- Remove the finished meat from the broth and set aside.
- Strain the broth itself through a sieve, put it on the fire again, add soaked peas there, salt and cook for 1 hour.
- Meanwhile, peel the vegetables, rinse, finely chop.
- Pour 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil into a hot pan and fry the carrots and onions on it until golden brown.
- Crush the prepared pea porridge to a porridge-like state.
- After that, add beef meat to the prepared vegetables, salt, pepper and fry over medium heat for 7-10 minutes.
- Add the prepared meat to the porridge, mix thoroughly and let it brew for another 4 minutes over low heat.
- If desired, you can decorate the dish with fresh herbs, peas in pods or vegetables.
Ready meat is not necessary to add to the beans during cooking. You can do this before serving.
Often, modern housewives are faced with a situation of long preparation of beans and a lack of time for this. Therefore, they are interested in how to cook pea porridge without soaking. Solving such a problem is quite simple. To cook pea porridge without soaking, the beans should be washed well, sprinkled in a saucepan, add salt, a little vegetable oil and cook for 2-3 hours until fully cooked.
Bean Cutlets
What can be prepared from peas to surprise loved ones? Vegetarian cutlets are a great choice. They contain a large amount of protein and carbohydrates, so they will be an excellent substitute for meat in fasting or vegetarianism.
Ingredients:
- Dry peas - 300 grams.
- Chicken Egg - 1 pc.
- Wheat flour - 150 grams.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Refined vegetable oil - 50 ml.
- Black pepper, salt, spices.
Cooking process:
- First, dry peas must be prepared for cooking and soaked, removed in a dark, cool place so that it swells.
- Rinse the prepared beans well under running water, place in an enamel pan and pour water 2-3 cm above the level of peas.
- Boil the product over high heat for about 10-20 minutes, then reduce to medium and stir constantly so that the beans do not burn.
- The degree of readiness of peas is quite easy to determine. It will be ready when it turns into a thick homogeneous mass.
- Put the peas in a bowl and let cool.
- Peel the onion, wash and chop finely.
- Fry in vegetable oil until golden brown, add to the pea mass and mix thoroughly.
- To make small cakes of 8-10 cm in diameter from this mass.
- Cook two deep plates. Break the egg into one, and pour a little flour into the other.
- The resulting cakes must be crushed in these ingredients twice (egg - flour - egg - flour).
- Heat the pan well, pour vegetable oil. Turn down the fire.
- Spread pea cakes in a pan and fry on both sides for about 3-4 minutes (until golden brown).
It is necessary to carefully turn the resulting vegan pea cutlets so that the puree inside is not leaked. They serve them hot to the table.
Bean and mushroom puree
Such a dish of peas with mushrooms is prepared in almost the same way as porridge. Before use, peas should be sorted, washed and soaked for 6-7 hours.
Ingredients:
- Dry peas - 2 cups.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Fresh champignons - 500 grams.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Butter and vegetable oil - 50 grams each.
- Fresh herbs - optional.
- Salt to taste.
Cooking process:
- We wash the prepared peas under running water, put it in a pan, salt and put it on a medium heat for 30-40 minutes.
- To make it cook faster, you can add a little refined sunflower oil to the water.
- Meanwhile, we clean and wash the champignons, carrots, onions.
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Rub carrots on a medium grater, cut onions and champignons into small cubes.
- We fry all vegetables over medium heat for 5-10 minutes until a golden crust appears on the mushrooms.
- When the peas are boiled, put it in a bowl and let cool slightly.
- Then place the finished beans and butter in a blender, grind until smooth.
- Mix the prepared vegetables with the resulting mass.
- Next, pea puree with mushrooms can be laid out in portions and, if desired, garnished with fresh herbs.
To avoid flatulence caused by beans, a little soda can be added to it during soaking.
Pea canning
Before embarking on such a complex process, it is worth exploring a few rules, because here too there are some nuances that must be taken into account. How to preserve peas correctly?
It is worth considering that only young and soft pods are suitable for canning peas. Before rolling, they should be carefully checked for spoiled beans. For this method of cooking vegetables, it is recommended to take small jars.
The classic recipe for canning peas at home
For marinade, you can take any vinegar (9%, 6% or apple).
Ingredients per 1 liter of marinade:
- Fresh young peas - 1 kg.
- Filtered water - 2 liters.
- Vinegar - 25 ml (9%) or 35 ml (6%).
- Salt and sugar - 35 grams each.
Cooking process:
- Bring the water to a boil, pour peas into it and cook over medium heat until the beans are soft (25-30 minutes).
- Pour 1 liter of water into another pan, add sugar and salt, bring to a boil.
- Remove the marinade from the heat and finish the vinegar, mix thoroughly.
- Pour the prepared peas into the sterilized jars and pour it with marinade.
- Sterilize for 20 minutes, roll up the lid, wrap in a warm blanket for a day.
We examined how to preserve peas. Some housewives find it easier to buy a finished product in a store. You can agree with this if you do not have your own peas. If you grow it on a personal plot in large quantities, then the recipe given is useful to you.
Bakery products
Yeast pies with peas in the oven are popular with many housewives for their unusual taste and ease of preparation.
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour - 600 grams.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Boiled water - 200 ml.
- Chicken Egg - 1 pc.
- Dry peas - 250 grams.
- Salt to taste.
- Dry yeast - 10 grams.
- Vegetable oil - 50 ml.
- Sugar - 2 tsp.
Cooking process:
- Soak the peas in advance, cook it to a porridge state for 30-40 minutes.
- In warm water, stir the yeast, sugar and one tablespoon of flour, let it brew for 20-25 minutes to make a sponge.
- Sift the rest of the flour into a wide bowl, add 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, salt, an egg.
- Pour the finished dough into a bowl with flour, stir the mass and knead the dough.
- When it becomes soft and elastic, cover it with a towel and put it in a warm place for 1-1.5 hours, so that it rises.
- The chilled peas are cooled to room temperature and chopped with a mixer to a homogeneous consistency.
- Peel the onions, wash them, cut into small cubes, fry until golden brown on preheated vegetable oil and mix with the resulting mashed potatoes.
- When the dough doubles in volume, it must be washed and left under the towel for another 20 minutes.
- We form cakes for pies. Separate small pieces from the dough, make balls out of them and roll out with a rolling pin.
- On the resulting cakes, spread the mashed peas and form pies.
- We lay them with a seam in the bottom on a baking sheet covered with parchment, coat them with a beaten egg and let it brew for 10-15 minutes.
- During this time, we warm the oven to 180-200 degrees.
- We bake pies with peas for 10-15 minutes until golden brown.
To prevent the finished baking from becoming stiff, it is recommended to put it after the oven on a clean baking sheet, cover with a towel and cool.
Hearty pancakes
For this dish you need not dried beans, but flour from them. It can also be found in every supermarket. Thanks to this ingredient, pea flour pancakes are tender and crumbly.
Ingredients:
- Chicken Egg - 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil - 50 ml.
- Pea flour - 50 grams.
- Low-fat kefir - 500 ml.
- Wheat flour - 50 grams.
- Soda is a pinch.
- Salt - 0.5 tsp.
Cooking process
- Kefir is heated to room temperature.
- Pour it into a bowl, add a chicken egg, a pinch of salt, vegetable oil (20 ml), mix all the ingredients thoroughly and beat with a whisk or a mixer.
- Continuing to beat, add in small portions wheat and pea flour to a thick consistency and leave for 20 minutes.
- Mix soda with a teaspoon of boiling water and pour this mixture into the dough, mix thoroughly.
- We heat the vegetable oil in a pan and spread a dough on it with a tablespoon.
- Pea pancakes are fried over medium heat on each side for 2-3 minutes.
Such a dish should be served with sour cream. Consider what you can cook from peas and cabbage.
Pea soup with fresh cabbage
This hearty and incredibly delicious first course would be a good option for the cold season. This is another simple recipe that every housewife is good to know.
Ingredients:
- Dry peas - 150 grams.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Fresh cabbage - 200 grams.
- Potato - 250 grams.
- Salt is a pinch.
- Pepper, spices - to taste.
Step-by-step preparation:
- Rinse the dry peas thoroughly, pour into a saucepan, add water, salt a little, cook over medium heat for 2.5-3 hours.
- Peel the vegetables, wash.
- Cut the potatoes into cubes, onions into thin half rings, carrots in small circles, and chop cabbage.
- When the peas start to boil, add potatoes to the soup and cook for another 20 minutes.
- Then add onions, carrots and cabbage, salt, pepper and cook until vegetables are ready.
Ready soup with peas and cabbage can be decorated with fresh herbs or add a little sour cream.