{"id":302,"date":"2011-12-09T15:02:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T22:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/?page_id=302"},"modified":"2011-12-09T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T22:02:20","slug":"yellow-split-pea-soup","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/food\/recipes\/yellow-split-pea-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Split Pea Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is another very simple yet wonderful soup. It&#8217;s from a cookbook that my friend Louise used. She photocopied the recipe for me and I&#8217;ve made it many times since. It&#8217;s great because there are very few ingredients so you don&#8217;t have to go shopping for it. It&#8217;s really best for winter when you need thick, hot soup to sustain you. Remember to soak the split peas!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 large onion\n<li>2 zucchini\n<li>1 tbsp. cooking oil\n<li>1 cup yellow split peas\n<li>1 qt stock of choice<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp turmeric\n<li>Salt and pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Soak the split peas by placing in a large bowl with plenty of cold water. Leave them several hours or overnight. Drain them, rinse them in fresh water, and drain them again. Set them aside.<\/p>\n<p>Chop the onions and zucchini very small. Heat the oil in a pan, add the onions, and saute, covered, over low heat, until the onions are soft. Add most of the zucchini, reserving a generous handful, and saute uncovered, stirring, for about 3 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Add the peas, stock, and turmeric and bring the soup to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover, and simmer until the peas are tender and falling apart to create a thick soup with a chunky texture, about 30-40 min.<\/p>\n<p>Add the remaining zucchini and cook 3-5 min until they are tender, then season with salt and pepper and serve.<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>The original recipe says to blanch the reserved zucchini separately, but that&#8217;s a waste of a pot, in my opinion; it&#8217;s easy to just add them in at the end. The reason for reserving, which didn&#8217;t make sense to me until after I made the soup, is that the long-simmered zucchini turn dark green and very soft. The short-simmered ones are brighter and have more texture.<\/p>\n<p>The turmeric is for color primarily &#8212; with it, the soup turns a beautiful dark yellow.<\/p>\n<p>The original recipe recommended chicken stock. You could use it if you&#8217;re not vegetarian, but I recommend a good vegetable stock (which may take some searching around to find). With this soup the peas are so good you can even use water, but that&#8217;s not as tasty.<\/p>\n<p>If you do forget to soak the peas (you will, at least once) you can pre-cook them for 10-20 minutes in boiling water during prep time. Then drain, rinse, and set aside covered. Drain again before adding. Soaking or pre-cooking reduces the gas-producing compounds in the beans and shortens the cooking time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another very simple yet wonderful soup. It&#8217;s from a cookbook that my friend Louise used. She photocopied the recipe for me and I&#8217;ve made it many times since. It&#8217;s great because there are very few ingredients so you don&#8217;t have to go shopping for it. It&#8217;s really best for winter when you need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":292,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions\/303"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}