Spilt pea soup recipe

I wanted to make a spilt pea soup. The same one that I use to eat at my grandma place when I was visiting her during my childwood. Strangely that was one of the only green soup I could eat. Because green soup means vegetables so Yeks !

I was missing this soup so much and if sometimes I have the chance to eat it at friends’ place or in restaurants … That was the first time I was making some at home ! Now that’s done and that’s even better that any orange soups that I love. From far !

But what a story ! I had never really seen split pea in fact. Or at least not I can recall. I think that I only saw them mashed or blended in soup. So I had a wrong idea about what they look like … I was looking near frozen products or next to fresh green peas … Until I got a call from my grandma .. We had a great lauf and I found them next to the lentils the next day !

All of that just for a soup but a soup … A delight together with some fried bread, sourdough bread baked in a wood-oven, made with spelt flour.

Spilt pea soup recipe

a French girl cuisine

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 2 hours hrs

Total Time 2 hours hrs 10 minutes mins

Course Soup

Cuisine French

Servings 6

Ingredients

  

• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• 1 potato
• 1 tablespoon of grape oil
• 250 gr. of split peas
• 3,5 l. of water
• 1 bouquet garni
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• some pepper
• 5 cl. of cream
• 3 slices of bread diced and fried with a bit of butter

Instructions

 

• Peel and cut onion, carrot and potato.
• Fry vegetables for 5 minutes with 1 tablespoon of grape oil.
• Add split peas, water, bouquet garni, salt and pepper.
• Cook on medium heat for 2 hours.
• Mix using a blender. It will be thicker if you use a hand blender.
• Servir avec diced bread fried with a bit of butter.