Belgian split pea soup: meaty and warming

Annik B
Annik B @belgiancook

My grandmother made this soup every fall and winter. I is a meal on it´s one. I Slidely addapted it and put in lesser meat and some chilli.

Belgian split pea soup: meaty and warming

My grandmother made this soup every fall and winter. I is a meal on it´s one. I Slidely addapted it and put in lesser meat and some chilli.

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Ingredients

1h30 mins
8 servings
  1. 1leek
  2. 2selery sticks
  3. 1large (spanish) onion
  4. 2 clovesgarlic crushed
  5. 1 tbginger paste
  6. 3small potatoes
  7. 500 grdry split peas
  8. 500 gror more pork meat ( smoked bacon,sausages, shank,ham
  9. 3 literstock (fresh or cubes) meat or veg. I use veg
  10. 1bouquet garni(star anise,bay,tym,clove)
  11. 1/2mild peperoni
  12. Salt if needed and white pepper
  13. 50 grbutter and 25 ml neutral oil (no olive!)
  14. 1/4 bunchparsley finely chopped
  15. 1 tbvinegar

Cooking Instructions

1h30 mins
  1. 1

    Cut all the veg into medium cubes

  2. 2

    Melt the oil and butter in a cast Iron pot. Put in the onion leek and selery. Sweat for 5 min.

  3. 3

    Put in spilt peas, potatoes and meat. Leave the meat in big peaces.

  4. 4

    Put in the peperoni

  5. 5

    Cover with the stock

  6. 6

    Put on the lit

  7. 7

    Let cook for +- 35 min. The potatoes and peas must be tender. Don´t boil it to long.

  8. 8

    Pick out the peperoni,bouquet garni dismiss

  9. 9

    Pick out the meat

  10. 10

    Cut the meat into bite size peaces. And keep apart.

  11. 11

    Mix the soup. You might to need to water it down a bit. I needed a glass of hot water. The soup must be thick.

  12. 12

    Season. If you use smoked meats it does not want salt. But it does need lot of pepper.

  13. 13

    Put the meat back in the soup. Add the parsley and the vinegar

  14. 14

    Serve piping hot with some thickly slices dark bread richly buttered.

  15. 15

    Better the day after. You might need to water it down then. A specially if you used shank or ham.

  16. 16

    Enjoy!

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Annik B
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I love cooking and baking. I try recipies from all over the world. I like good honest foodI love veg. all veg. I call myself a flexitarian. I try to eat honest food without being a purist. But no ready mixes for me.
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