Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, yellow split pea soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Yellow split peas fill this cozy soup with plant-based protein, cashews add richness, and smoked paprika and fresh corn give it a sweet, smoky flavor. Until I tried this yellow split pea soup from Gena Hamshaw's cookbook Power Plates, I didn't think split peas were something to get excited about. Yellow split pea soup with Indian curry spices. The peas grow in the pot (and they thicken even more if you store the soup overnight), so add more water whenever you need to maintain a soupy consistency.

Yellow Split Pea Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Yellow Split Pea Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have yellow split pea soup using 8 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Yellow Split Pea Soup:

1. Make ready 2 onions diced
2. Make ready 2 garlic cloves minced
3. Take 4 slices smoked bacon diced
4. Make ready 1 teaspoon paprika
5. Make ready 250 g yellow split peas
6. Make ready 1250 ml vegetable stock
7. Make ready salt and pepper for seasoning
8. Prepare 2 teaspoons basil

It is most often greyish-green or yellow in color depending on the regional variety of peas used; all are cultivars of Pisum sativum. I used yellow split peas and found that they became mushy in much less time than stated in the recipe. I was too grossed out by the ham hock in the supermarket (squeamish ex-vegetarian) so settled on the salt pork. I wish the salt pork I found had been less fatty.

Steps to make Yellow Split Pea Soup:

1. Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a large pan over a medium heat - Add the onions, bacon, garlic, basil and paprika and sauté for 5 minutes - Wash the yellow split peas and add to the pan
2. Season to taste with salt and pepper - Blend until smooth then divide between four bowls

I was too grossed out by the ham hock in the supermarket (squeamish ex-vegetarian) so settled on the salt pork. I wish the salt pork I found had been less fatty. Split pea soup has been traced back to ancient Greek and Roman societies. This recipe is made from dried yellow peas that have been peeled and split. Yellow split peas are probably most famously used to make dal, a pulse-based dish from India.

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