Pea soup

Pea soup is a leader among many soups with a puree consistency. Filling, low calorie content, soft velvety texture, excellent combination with chicken, meat and smoked meats, ease of preparation made the dish popular and in demand on our table. There are many recipe options, but the important thing is to choose peas that boil well.

Classic pea soup

The recipe for classic pea soup has been known for a long time and in many families. The set of ingredients is simple and affordable, and the preparation is simple. Boiled peas and vegetables are crushed in a blender until pureed, and croutons are always served with this soup. In this recipe we take a classic set of vegetables for peas: potatoes, onions and carrots and add a little bacon. Soak the peas for several hours in advance.

1. 
   Immediately prepare all the ingredients for the soup according to the recipe. Peel and rinse the vegetables.Drain the soaked peas and rinse them too.
2. 
   Place the prepared peas in a soup pot and cover with cold water. Over medium heat, bring the peas to a boil, remove all the foam from the surface and simmer the soup over low heat for an hour until the peas are ready.
3. 
   Peel the potatoes, rinse and cut into small cubes, place in a saucepan with the cooked peas and cook for another 20 minutes.
4. 
   While the soup is cooking, cut the peeled onion into small cubes and chop the carrots on a coarse grater.
5. 
   Cut the loaf slices into cubes, pour in vegetable oil, sprinkle with spices and place in a preheated oven for 15 minutes.
6. 
   Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and first fry the onion, then add the grated carrots and fry until soft. Immediately transfer the roast to the soup.
7. 
   In the same frying pan, fry the bacon cut into small cubes.
8. 
   Add salt and black pepper to the cooked soup to your taste.
9. 
   Then puree the peas and vegetables using an immersion blender and turn off the heat. Take a sample and add what is missing for your taste.
10. 
    Remove the browned crackers from the oven.
11. 
    Pour the pureed pea soup prepared according to the classic recipe into bowls and put croutons and fried bacon into each bowl, decorate with herbs and serve the dish. Bon appetit!

Pea soup with smoked meats

Pea soup with smoked meats will be a good option for the dinner table and the recipes for preparing it are varied, but the special taste of the soup is given by smoked meats, the range of which is wide. In this recipe we use smoked chicken drumsticks and the rest of the ingredients as for regular pea soup. If you have a soft pea variety, you don’t have to soak it.You don’t have to add spices to this soup, but that’s up to taste.

Cooking time: 2 hours.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Peas – 200 gr.
• Smoked chicken drumsticks – 2 pcs.
• Potatoes – 3-4 pcs.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Seasonings - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare the ingredients for the puree soup according to the recipe and the number of servings you need. Peel and rinse the vegetables.

Step 2. Rinse the peas well, pour into a saucepan for cooking soup, cover with cold water and cook over low heat for an hour. Periodically remove the foam from the surface of the soup.

Step 3. Peel the onions and carrots, wash and cut into small pieces of the same size so that they are fried at the same time.

Step 4. In a frying pan in heated vegetable oil, fry the chopped carrots and onions until lightly browned.

Step 5. Add smoked drumsticks to the cooked peas and cook the soup for another 20 minutes.

Step 6. Then remove the smoked meats from the soup.

Step 7. Cut the potatoes into small pieces. Transfer it to the soup along with the fried vegetables until the potatoes are ready.

Step 8. Remove the bones from the cooked smoked drumsticks and cut the meat into longitudinal slices.

Step 9. Add salt and seasonings to the cooked pea soup to your taste, stir and take a sample.

Step 10. Then use an immersion blender to puree the finished pea soup. If you don’t have a blender, you can drain the broth, chop the vegetables and peas with a masher and bring the soup back to a boil.

Step 11. Serve the prepared pea soup-puree to the table in plates, putting chopped smoked meats in each. Bon appetit!

Pea soup with chicken

Pea soup with chicken will be lighter compared to soup with smoked meats, and it is good for a children's menu, only with the exception of spices. In this recipe we prepare soup with chicken fillet and fried vegetables, which will make its taste richer, but there are also more dietary options without frying vegetables. We soak the peas for soup in advance, then they will boil faster and there will be no discomfort in the intestines.

Cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Peas - 2 tbsp.
• Chicken fillet – 2 pcs.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 2 cloves.
• Butter – 1 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp.
• Flour – 2 tbsp.
• Ground black and red pepper - to taste.
• Coriander - to taste.
• Tomato paste – 2 tbsp.
• Water – 3 l.
• Bay leaf – 1 pc.
• Allspice peas – 2 pcs.
• Greens - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Boil 2 liters of water in a saucepan for cooking soup and transfer pre-soaked and washed peas into it. Cook the peas for at least an hour, periodically skimming the foam from the surface.

Step 2. In another small saucepan, boil 1 liter of water, add any spices and cook for 5 minutes, then remove the spices.

Step 3. Rinse the chicken fillet with cold water. Cut into pieces.

Step 4. Transfer them to the broth, add salt to your taste and cook for 10 minutes. Then remove the fillet pieces from the broth with a slotted spoon.

Step 5. Grind the peeled and washed carrots on a medium grater.

Step 6. Transfer it to the peas 15 minutes before the end of cooking.

Step 7. Peel the onion and finely chop. Heat vegetable oil with butter in a frying pan and fry the chopped onion. Sprinkle the fried onions with peppers and coriander.

Step 8Then add flour to the onion, mix well so that there are no lumps left and fry for a couple of minutes.

Step 9. Add tomato paste to the frying pan, stir again and turn off the heat after a couple of minutes.

Step 10. After an hour of cooking, the peas will absorb all the liquid and turn out almost completely boiled.

Step 11. Using an immersion blender, grind the cooked peas until smooth.

Step 12. Then pour chicken broth into this puree through a sieve, bring the puree soup to a boil over low heat and add salt to your taste. Transfer the fried chicken pieces into the soup, add the garlic cloves through the garlic and after 2 minutes turn off the heat.

Step 13. The prepared pea soup with chicken can be served at the table, decorated with herbs. Bon appetit!

Pea soup with meat

Pea soup with meat turns out to be richer and more satisfying. It occupies an important place on the dining table in many cuisines, and not only Russian. You can choose any meat, but in this recipe we’ll use traditional pork ribs. The cooking technology is simple and we cook the peas and ribs separately, which will allow us to obtain a more delicate texture of the pea puree. We take split peas for soup and soak them in advance.

Cooking time: 1 hour 15 minutes.

Cooking time: 15 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Peas – 1 tbsp.
• Pork ribs – 400 gr.
• Potatoes – 3 pcs.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 4 cloves.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Bay leaf – 1 pc.
• Seasonings - to taste.
• Water – 1.5 l.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Rinse the pre-soaked peas well before cooking.

Step 2.Pour it into a separate pan, add cold water and cook for one hour until fully cooked, periodically skimming the foam from the surface.

Step 3. At the same time, in another saucepan for cooking soup, boil the washed pork ribs in 1.5 liters of water until soft, cutting them into portions along the intercostal spaces.

Step 4. Peel the potatoes, rinse, cut into small cubes and transfer to soft ribs, cook until tender.

Step 5. Peel the onion and carrots and cut into pieces of any shape.

Step 6. Fry the chopped vegetables until light golden brown in hot vegetable oil.

Step 7. During cooking, the peas will absorb all the liquid and become soft and boiled.

Step 8. Grind the cooked peas with an immersion blender until smooth.

Step 9. Chop the peeled garlic cloves in any way, with a knife or on a garlic grinder.

Step 10. Place pea puree, roasted vegetables, bay leaf with selected seasonings into a saucepan with boiled ribs. Add salt to the soup, stir and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes.

Step 11. The prepared pea soup with meat can be served at the table.

Step 12. Pour it into plates, decorate as you wish and serve for dinner. Bon appetit!

Creamy pea soup with chicken

Peas are a good base for making pureed soups or cream soups, and creamy pea soup with chicken would be a tasty option. Culinary experts distinguish these similar soups by adding dairy ingredients or sauces based on them to the cream soup. In this recipe we take boiled peas, use coconut milk as a dairy ingredient, add chicken fillet with rice for satiety, and spices for flavor.

Cooking time: 2 hours.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Chicken broth – 1.3 l.
• Split peas – 160 gr.
• Rice – 80 gr.
• Chicken fillet – 2 pcs.
• Potatoes – 3 pcs.
• Onion – 2 pcs.
• Leek – 1 stalk.
• Green onion – 1 bunch.
• Ginger root – 1 piece.
• Chili pepper - optional.
• Garlic – 2 cloves.
• Turmeric – 1 tsp.
• Zira – ½ tsp.
• Coriander – ½ tsp.
• Bay leaf – 2 pcs.
• Coconut milk – 400 ml.
• Olive oil – 2 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately peel and rinse with cold water all the vegetables specified in the recipe. Cut the onion into small cubes. Cut the leek into thin rings. Finely chop the garlic with a knife. If desired, finely chop the hot pepper.

Step 2. Grind the peeled ginger root on a fine grater. Cut the potatoes into small cubes and cover with cold water in a separate bowl.

Step 3. To cook the soup, take a saucepan with a thick bottom. Heat olive oil in it and add all the chopped vegetables except potatoes. Fry the vegetables with constant stirring with a spatula for 7 minutes.

Step 4. Then add the seasonings indicated in the recipe (cumin, turmeric, bay leaf and coriander) to the fried vegetables and fry for another 1 minute. Then add the washed peas to the vegetables. Pour in the chicken broth, stir everything and cook the soup for 1 hour 15 minutes over low heat.

Step 5. During this time, the peas will boil until pureed, but the cooked ingredients can be further pureed with an immersion blender. Add chopped potatoes to the soup, add washed rice, chicken fillet cut into small cubes and pour in coconut milk. Salt the soup to your taste.Cook the cream soup over low heat for another 20-30 minutes until the potatoes are ready.

Step 6. You can serve the prepared pea cream soup with chicken, decorating it with chopped green onions. Bon appetit!

Lenten pea soup without meat

Lenten pureed pea soup without meat is relevant and in demand for the Lenten table, and the peas themselves make this dish, especially in the version of pureed soup, quite satisfying. The soup is prepared in vegetable broth from any set of vegetables and is always supplemented with croutons. The thickness of the puree soup can be adjusted to your taste.

Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 5.

Ingredients:

• Peas - 1 tbsp.
• Potatoes – 3 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Vegetable broth – 2.5 l.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Garlic – 2 cloves.
• Bay leaf – 2 pcs.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. For pureed pea soup, pre-cook vegetable broth based on any vegetables and roots (carrots, onions, celery and parsley). Take split and soft-cooked peas, then soaking is not necessary. Peel and rinse the vegetables for the soup itself.

Step 2. Rinse the peas well with cold water and place in a saucepan to cook the soup.

Step 3. Fill it with vegetable broth and cook the peas without adding salt over low heat for 1 hour. If the peas are not cooked well, you can add a pinch of soda.

Step 4. Cut the onion into small cubes.

Step 5. Cut the carrots and potatoes into several large pieces and add to the cooked peas.

Step 6. Cook the soup for another 20 minutes until the carrots and potatoes become soft. Carefully pour some of the broth from the soup into another bowl.

Step 7Add fried onions, minced garlic cloves to the peas with vegetables and puree everything using a submersible blender into a smooth and silky mass. Then add broth to this puree to the desired thickness of the soup, add bay leaves, sprinkle with salt and black pepper to your taste and bring the soup to a boil.

Step 8. For lean pea soup, prepare bread croutons from a loaf in advance and in any way. Let the soup brew a little and you can pour it into soup cups.

Step 9. Serve the crackers separately or place them in each cup and serve the dish at the table. Bon appetit!

Creamy pea soup with smoked ribs

Creamy pea soup with smoked ribs is easy to make, you just need time to soak and cook the peas. Cream soup differs from cream soup by adding cream to it, which changes the texture of the finished dish and gives it a better taste. In this recipe, we prepare pea soup from peas with vegetables and puree the cooked ingredients in a blender with the addition of cream. Add smoked ribs to each plate and complement them with balyk.

Cooking time: 2 hours.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Peas – 250 gr.
• Smoked ribs – 200 gr.
• Balyk – 300 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Potatoes – 2 pcs.
• Water – 2 l.
• Cream 20% – 100 ml.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Provençal herbs - to taste.
• Parsley - for decoration.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Rinse the pre-soaked peas well, place them in a saucepan for cooking soup, cover with cold water and cook for an hour over low heat, skimming the foam from the surface.

Step 2. Prepare meat ingredients for cream soup. Cut balyk or other boiled meat into small cubes.

Step 3.Cut the smoked ribs along the intercostal spaces into portions. You can change the proportion of ribs and meat to your liking.

Step 4. Prepare roasted vegetables in the cream soup. Peel the vegetables indicated in the recipe and rinse with cold water. Cut the onion into small cubes. Grind the carrots on a medium grater. Sauté these vegetables in a frying pan in heated vegetable oil.

Step 5. Cut the potatoes into small pieces. Place the sliced ​​potatoes and sautéed onions and carrots into the cooked peas, add salt, black pepper and Provençal herbs to your taste and cook the soup until the potatoes are ready.

Step 6. Pour the cooked peas and vegetables in portions or all at once into a blender bowl, add cream and beat into a smooth, homogeneous mass. Bring the resulting cream soup to a boil again, pouring it into the pan.

Step 7. Then pour the prepared pea soup into soup bowls. Place pieces of meat and smoked ribs in each. Decorate the dish with finely chopped parsley and serve for lunch. Bon appetit!

Pea soup in a slow cooker

Puree pea soup in a slow cooker has only one difference from just pea soup - pureeing cooked peas with vegetables, but when using boiled varieties of this “bean”, a blender is not necessary. In a slow cooker, peas cook perfectly on their own until they become a homogeneous puree. In this recipe we prepare a lean, or in other words, a dietary version of pureed pea soup and its thickness is determined by the proportion of water and peas, and the optimal ratio is 4:1.

Cooking time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Cooking time: 15 minutes.

Servings: 3.

Ingredients:

• Split peas – 1 tbsp.
• Water – 4 tbsp.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Peel the onions and carrots and rinse with cold water. Then cut the onion into small cubes.

Step 2. Turn on the multicooker to the “Frying” or “Baking” program. Heat the vegetable oil and fry the chopped onion for 5 minutes.

Step 3. Grind the peeled carrots on a fine grater, add to the fried onions and fry them for 5 minutes, stirring with a silicone spatula.

Step 4. Add a glass of pre-soaked and washed peas to the fried vegetables. Sprinkle these ingredients with salt and black pepper to your taste.

Step 5. Pour 4 glasses of clean water into the multi-bowl. Close the lid and turn on the “Extinguishing” program for the default time, which is usually 1 hour.

Step 6. After the signal about the end of the program, if the peas are not completely boiled, puree the soup with an immersion blender until it becomes a smooth, homogeneous puree.

Step 7. Pour the pea soup prepared in a slow cooker into bowls and serve at the table, adding fresh bread or crackers/croutons. Bon appetit!