This simple dish is actually very popular. Pea soup can be made in several ways. If you add some ingredients, you get a fragrant and satisfying dish. How to cook pea soup to make it tasty and tasty? Here, as in any other dish, there are tricks. Consider a few recipes for making this soup.
Let's start with a recipe that doesn't use meat products. This is the easiest option, which is suitable for those who are fasting or do not eat meat. Soak peas (half a cup) in cold water in advance for about 2 hours. This product is difficult to cook, so to speed up further cooking, you need to hold it in water. In the meantime, we clean one onion and, cutting it into small cubes, put it in a frying pan, which we preheat with a small amount of vegetable oil. Add to it chopped carrots (1 piece), a clove of garlic, also chopped. Make the roast. We take three potatoes and cut them into cubes, before peeling them.
We put a pot of water on the fire and put peas in it. Cook for 20-23 minutes. Then add the potatoes to it. After 10 minutes, you need to put in the pan cooked frying. After another five minutes, you need to add any spices, salt and one bay leaf. Then we take the processed cheese and cut it into small cubes. Put it in a pan. After 10 minutes, remove the bay leaf from the pan and turn off the soup. After the soup is poured into plates, you need to add finely chopped greens to it.
You can put smoked bacon in this recipe. In this case, 100 grams of any bacon is added to the pan instead of vegetable oil.
And now a few words about how to cook pea chicken soup. Naturally, a more appetizing soup is obtained on a rich broth. For its preparation, you can use any meat. Take a chicken, preferably homemade, and cut it into pieces. Some of them are used for cooking the broth. When cooking a large amount of soup, you can take a whole chicken. We spread the meat in cold water and put the pan on the fire. If the peas have not previously been soaked, then you can put it in a pan at the same time as the chicken. But if you soaked it in cold water for about 2 hours, then add it to the pan after 30 minutes. Peel two potatoes, one onion and the same amount of carrots. Cut the potatoes into cubes and add to the pan an hour after the start of cooking. We cut the remaining vegetables very finely and make them fry in vegetable oil. Add it to the pan and send chopped herbs and spices there. Cook until cooked and serve.
But the most refined recipe for this dish is pea soup with smoked ribs. Smoked meats will give the soup an unusual aroma and taste. We need 700 grams of beef and 300 grams of smoked pork ribs. We put the meat in a pan, fill it with water and send it to cook for 1.5 hours. While preparing meat products, you can prepare vegetables. Peel one onion, carrot and three potatoes. We cut the potatoes into medium-sized cubes, and chop the carrots and onions finely. We make a frying of vegetables, in which we add two tablespoons of tomato paste. Put the peas in the pan, and after 20 minutes pour the potatoes. After another 10 minutes, put the frying in the soup. At the end, pour finely chopped greens.
Before preparing pea soup, it is better to soak the peas in water in advance to reduce the cooking time. You can use various technical devices. For example, cook pea soup in a slow cooker. First you need to put meat and vegetables in it. And after 20 minutes add peas and smoked meats to the broth and put in stewing mode for two hours.
Now, knowing how to cook pea soup in different ways, you will delight your family with a delicious dinner.