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Sal Vanilla
Jan 25, 2013 03:26 PM
I just gave this recipe to someone else. I love it! http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2006/10/... it has sweet potatoes and kale. Yum. And low calorie!
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Sunday soups made a delicious Yellow Split Pea soup this week. It is wonderful and we found Yellow split peas at Whole Foods.
Yellow Split Pea Soup:2 C Dried Yellow Split Peas, washed
1/2 C Rice
1 Potato, peeled and chopped
1 Onion, chopped
2 T Olive Oil
Juice of 3 Lemons
8 C Water
4 C Vegetable Stock
Salt/Pepper to tasteDirections:
1. In a soup pot, boil the yellow split peas in the water. Skim off any foam from the surface.
2. Once boiling, add the vegetable stock, potatoes and rice. Stir to prevent sticking. Turn down heat, cover and simmer for about an hour, until rice and potatoes are cooked.
3. Fry the onion in olive oil and a pinch of salt/pepper until translucent, about 5-7 minutes.
4. Add the onions and lemon juice towards the end of cooking. Salt/pepper to taste.Serves 6-8
For more photos and tips go to http://ww.sundaysoups.com
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CindyJ
Feb 14, 2010 05:52 AM
Here's a link to my go-to recipe for split pea soup. The addition of parsnips adds a hint of sweetness. It's a vegetarian recipe with an option for adding meat, rather than the other way around. http://books.google.com/books?id=Tn0k...
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My version is pretty similar to most of the recipes here. I use saute a couple of onions and a little celery in some olive oil until slightly softened and then add some garlic and cook until fragrant. I then add the split peas, a couple of bay leaves, some fresh or dried thyme, and pepper and then cover with veggie stock. (In a pinch, I use Better than Bouillon Veggie or a Knorr's veggie bouillon cube or two.) After simmering for a while, when the peas are fairly soft, I might add a couple of cubed potatoes and cook until finished.
I always taste carefully for seasoning when it's done, and add some soy sauce for a bit more depth of flavor, along with some salt if needed and more pepper.
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This is my recipe and I swear by it. Have made it more times than I can remember. It really doesn't need much else - the split peas give it plenty of body and the flavour is excellent. You can, I suppose, add some additional herbs - but I suggest you make it once just like this and see before mucking it up with a lot of stuff. I don't miss the smoky ham either. And I'm not a vegetarian.
Vegetarian Split Pea Soup
2 cups split peas (green or yellow - it doesn’t matter)
8 cups cold water
2 stalks celery, chopped
2 medium carrots, chopped
2 small onions, chopped
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
2 tbsp. chopped fresh parsleyRinse the split peas in several changes of water, then place them into a large saucepan or Dutch oven. Add the cold water and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Lower the heat to a simmer and cook, covered, for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the peas are soft.
Add the celery, carrots, onions, salt, pepper, and parsley. Bring back to a boil, and simmer, covered, for another 30 minutes, until the vegetables are tender and the split peas have almost completely disintegrated. Taste and adjust seasoning, if necessary.
Makes 6 to 8 servings.
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Pretty easy to just omit the ham hocks completely, or you can omit them and then add a little liquid smoke or smoked something-or-other if you want that flavor.
I thought I had a recipe that I had combined from a few online ones, but I couldn't find it... my gf posted a basic method here:
http://www.runawaysquirrels.com/2008/...
I like mine with carrots too, and I think maybe a little of Yukon Gold or a similar type of potato. Overall, split pea soups are pretty forgiving - if you find a basic method online that looks good, it'll probably work.›3 Replies-
re: will47
Finally found my recipe:
1 package (16 oz) split peas
6 C water
2 C veg stock
2 bay leaves
1 1/2 tsp or to taste liquid smoke (optional)
kosher salt, to taste
olive oil (or other veg oil), for sauteeing
1 leek, halved and cut into small rounds
3 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
1 large / 2 small carrot, small dice
2 med yukon gold or similar potatoes, small dice
pepper, to taste
minced chives, for garnish
crusty breadSoak peas and drain
In a large dutch oven or stockpot, bring peas to boil in water and veg stock along w/ bay leaves, a little kosher salt and liquid smoke. let boil for 2 minutes; then lower to a simmer and cook covered for 45 min to an hour, until soft.
Saute leeks and garlic in a little olive oil or other oil, add carrot and potato and saute until coated with oil and warm. Add to split pea mixture, and simmer until vegetables are tender.
Extract bay leaves if you can find them, puree, if desired, and add more seasoning to taste.
Top with chives, and serve with crusty bread.
You can also include a little baked tofu or Chinese vegetarian duck as a ham substitute
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re: mom22tots
Not sure about the baked tofu, but last time, I had some tofu-based smoky tasting veggie duck thing (either a packaged thing from a trip to Shanghai or my girlfriend's mom's homemade tofu-skin veggie duck), and it was pretty good in there. Looks like you're in / near NY, so maybe you can find something similar....
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waitress
Feb 11, 2010 08:42 AM
Big fan of the crock pot for split pea! I also like to puree in the food processor, onion, celery (leaves and all) carrots & potato. The other night I added a can of crushed tomato and made it tomato split pea with curry.
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waitress
Feb 14, 2010 05:17 AM
Dried beans are the best in the crock pot. Soak your beans over night, I soak everything but lentils. You can cook them straight from the bag, but soak if you think about it. You would be amazed how you could get away with salt, pepper and water. For basic bean starters for soup, I use can of tomatoes, onion, celery & carrots.
I start things on the stove and let it cook in the crock pot, beef stew, chili. I make sure my liquid is two inches over whatever I am cooking. If you aren't there to supervise the water can really cook out.
Also don't forget a hit of wine or beer! I was in my fridge looking for a dark beer to pour in chili, all I had was a twisted tea wine cooler (that someone left :) and added that to chili and it turned out great.
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CatherineMcClarey
Feb 19, 2010 02:41 AM
I've found out the hard way that dried beans (except lentils) MUST be soaked overnight. I've found crockpot recipes for bean soups which claimed to get things like split peas or Great Northern beans cooked through by just cooking them on Low for a LONG time (10-12 hrs. or so), without preliminary soaking -- but the beans always are still hard if you follow those recipes as written (and who wants to eat "bean pebbles" for supper?).
If your family doesn't drink alcohol or have it around the house, vegetable stock might be another way to have a more flavorful liquid than plain water in pea soup. (Cook's Illustrated likes Swanson's veggie broth; Penzey's Spices has a concentrated vegetable soup base that you add to water.) You probably won't need any additional salt if you use vegetable stock, though, as most of them are quite salty already.-
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the_MU
Feb 28, 2010 05:54 AM
I never soak beans before cooking and generally don't have the undercooked bean problem. The only exception is if I forget to cover them and some of the water cooks off, leaving the beans on the top undercooked. But I find that if I stick a bag of great northerns or pintos in the crockpot before bed they are ready when I get up the next morning. I use about 6c water to 2c or 1lb beans, or at least 3 inches of water above the level of dried beans.
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I've made what I'm sure is hundreds of pots over the years. My favorite, unusual ingredient: mustard, in addition to the usual suspects (onion, garlic, carrot, celery). The mustard wakes up the earthiness of the split peas, and doesn't end up reading as mustardy, if that makes any sense.
Also good: If you make a big enough batch, eat from it the first day, then simmer it till it's thicker before you cool and store it. You'll then have something more akin to a dip or a spread, which is delicious on hippy-ish whole-wheat bread.
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re: mom22tots
I made a batch last night and made sure to note the recipe:
1 baseball-sized onion, brunoised
5 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup carrot, shreddedSaute in cooking spray/oil of your choice till quite tender -- about 10 minutes or more. You can't overdo this step, really, and it'd be delicious taken all the way till it's caramelized if you like.
Add:
1 pound split peas, sorted
1 quart chicken broth (vegetable would be just fine)
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
Salt to tasteBring just to the boil, then reduce to a fairly hard simmer
Cook, partially coered, until the peas disintegrate. This can take anywhere between 20 and 40 minutes. Add water to adjust consistency to your liking.
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goodhealthgourmet
Feb 11, 2010 08:49 AM
"then simmer it till it's thicker before you cool and store it."
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you can also toss in a little barley or oatmeal to thicken it up...plus you get the bonus of the added fiber and nutrients.-
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goodhealthgourmet
Feb 11, 2010 01:45 PM
standard oatmeal. it disintegrates right into the soup...
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/674906for the barley, if you don't like the texture you can just give the soup a buzz with the hand blender to break it down.
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I've tried a few & I recently made this one & it's my favorite so far-- Andersen's (google Pea Soup Andersen's for actual site)
http://www.recipezaar.com/Andersens-S...I used fresh thyme because I had it, just pulled out the stem & bay leaf before using the immersion blender right in the pot instead of sieve.
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goodhealthgourmet
Feb 10, 2010 07:33 PM
cheesecake17 once posted a recipe she liked:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/6666...when i make vegetarian pea soup i like to add a pinch of smoked paprika - it adds a smoky note that you'd typically get from ham or bacon.
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