It is believed that wholesome food cannot be tasty. This is partly true: healthy and healthy food is not to everyone’s taste, but the cook, the master of his craft, must combine taste and benefit in his creation. Smoked pea soup is an exception to the rule; it is very tasty and healthy.

What is useful peas

Peas have been eaten since ancient times. Everyone loves this bean culture for its excellent taste and useful properties. Pea is rich in protein, it is as much as in beef, but pea protein is absorbed much better and faster, it contains useful amino acids, such as methionine, lysine, cystine, tryptophan. Thanks to these substances, peas have become an integral product of the diet of vegetarians.

There are a lot of carbohydrates and microelements in this bean culture. Salts of potassium, iron, phosphorus and manganese are included. In addition, it is an anti-cancer agent due to selenium. Eating peas helps reduce cancer and cardiovascular disease.

An excursion into the history of pea soup

Cooking onions and carrots

Salt, pepper and cook the soup until cooked. Before serving, let him brew for 15 minutes. Serve with croutons and garlic, or pour crackers in each plate, and garnish with chopped parsley on top.

Smoked Chicken Pea Puree Soup

Pea soup puree with smoked meats is possible. For the dish you will need:

• peas - 1 cup;
• smoked chicken breast;
• onions and carrots - 1 pc;
• celery - 1 stalk;
• mushrooms (ceps and champignons) - 150 g;
• butter - 40 g;
• chicken stock - 1.5 l;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• spice;
• garlic;
• greenery.

Soak the peas for several hours (you can leave it overnight if you plan to cook the soup in the morning). Then drain the water, pour clean and cook in a saucepan. After boiling the water, cook the peas for 10 minutes, then drain the water again and add the already prepared chicken broth. When the peas are completely cooked, you need to make mashed potatoes from it. Next, wash onions, carrots, celery and mushrooms, peel and individually cut into small cubes. Pass the onions and carrots in a pan until golden brown, add prepared celery and mushrooms to them. Simmer foods without a lid for 7 minutes, stirring constantly, then cover the pan with a lid and simmer for 5 minutes over low heat. Combine vegetables and pea puree, pour finely chopped chicken breast into a pan. Ready pea cream soup with smoked meat season with butter and spices to taste. Let the soup brew for 15 minutes.

Before serving, add a little greens, garlic and crackers to a bowl of soup. The result of each housewife looks different, even if the soup is cooked according to the same recipe.

Young peas and mint - a great combination

For 4 servings:

Cooking:

Put green onions and potatoes in a pot with broth, bring to a boil, reduce heat, cook for 15 minutes, until the potatoes are soft.

To make the soup not only tasty, but also beautiful, you need to do the following. Boil 3 tbsp. l peeled peas for two minutes, put it in cold water. Add the remaining peas to the soup and cook for 5 minutes; cooking should not take longer so that the soup does not lose its flavor and color. Now is the time to add mint, lime juice (lemon) and sugar, after which the dish is cooled, beat with a blender, season with half sour cream, add salt and pepper.

To serve cold soup, it must be cooled. To do this, you can slightly dilute it with cold broth - as it cools, it thickens. There is also a hot feed option, it is no less sophisticated. Served peppermint delicacy in plates. As a decoration, mint, peas, sour cream are used.

The soup needs to be given a coarse texture. To do this, just beat it slowly with a blender - this will give a delicate taste. To fix the taste, you can wipe the soup puree through a sieve.

How about meat?

Pea soup puree can also be cooked with non-smoked chicken or pork. Boil chicken and peas separately for soup. When the beans have cooled, they need to be mashed, and a blender is perfect for this. Prepared in advance chicken (or any other meat broth) pour into pea puree. Add sautéed onions and carrots to the pan, sliced \u200b\u200bboiled meat and spices. All this must be put on fire and boil for 7 minutes, then remove and let it brew.

A bit of imagination and ...

If you undertook to cook, the recipe can be slightly changed to your taste and the availability of products in the refrigerator. For the soup, you can take any smoked meats, for example, hunting sausages, cervelat, loin, brisket or smoked chicken wings. If you like to experiment, then different smoked meats will give the dish a different taste. During cooking, remember that the soup is useful due to peas, and not smoked meats, therefore, if the usefulness of this dish is important, then you need to put a little smoked meats, and when you want to get a taste, more.

Spicy herbs, for example, dill, marjoram, caraway seeds, hops-suneli and celery, will add flavor to this soup. Green onions for pea soup will be a good addition and give an interesting flavor. If you still find it difficult to understand the technology of preparing pea soup, then at any time you can find the video “Pea soup with smoked meats."

1. Peas must first be soaked in water, otherwise it will cook for a long time (about 50 minutes).
2. If you want the soup to be with whole peas, then the beans should be divided into two parts. Cook one half of the peas so that it boils, and put the second into the pan 15 minutes before the end of cooking (the laid peas must be pre-soaked in water for at least 3 hours).
3. If you like potatoes in soup, but don’t want it to boil well, then you need to put it after the peas have cooked for about 15 minutes.

Video on how to cook delicious smoked pea soup:

Culinary result

So, we know that pea soup with smoked meats is a delicious classic of the genre. In ancient Greece, the dish was so popular that it even sold on the streets, today in Russia it is served in some restaurants, and certainly everyone cooks such yummy at home. Pamper your loved ones with such a soup.

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There is such an expression: "A real family begins with soup." Probably the way it really is. In every cell of society, there will certainly be at least one family member who cannot imagine his day without soup. And this is very good. After all, the first dishes are very useful, regardless of whether it is a soup - milk or based on broth, vegetarian light soup or chicken soup with noodles or the other.

All of them are very tasty and healthy in their own way. Pea soup is no exception. Despite its calorie content, it is very popular in many countries of the world, although it has different names. Peas are a storehouse of plant proteins, minerals and various vitamins. In addition, pea soup is very nutritious and nutritious, because peas contain almost the same amount of protein as beef.

Personally, I never thought about the benefits of this soup. I just like peas and all the dishes from it. It doesn’t matter what peas are green peas or peeled, from which we cook soups and cereals. Agree, if you often use the same dish, then it will soon get tired. But for some reason this did not happen to me.

The fact is that in our student years we very often prepared a variety of pea “masterpieces”. Probably many students had and have eaten pasta and all kinds of cereals as their main food. The price is acceptable and satisfying. And so it was with us. Since then, I do not really like most cereals, but not peas. It was and remains one of my favorite dishes.

The basic principles of the proper preparation of pea soup with smoked meats

• You can cook pea soup on any meat. The best option is lamb, pork or beef ribs. Ideally, if they are smoked.
• As smoked meats, you can use anything you want, either individually or all together. It can be chicken wings, brisket, smoked sausages, ribs, etc.
• The key to a tasty and healthy soup is the freshness of the above products.
• Peas should be cooked over low heat in the region of 1-1.5 hours, after having been sorted out and very well washed with cold, running water.
• Peas must be soaked in cold water for 6-8 hours. Better yet at night. This rule applies to all recipes for preparing pea soup.
• Often, when peas are soaked or during cooking, they add tea baking soda to soften it more quickly. In order for peas to preserve all its useful substances - vitamins and minerals, this should not be done. The process should be natural and only under this condition you will get a healthy and tasty soup, without extraneous taste and smell.
• Peeled vegetables for pea soup can be cut in any way. Before adding them to peas, first you should fry the carrots with onions in a pan, add any smoked meats that you plan to add to them, and fry them a little until the smoked meats have a pleasant aroma.
• It is very good to add finely chopped garlic and fresh herbs to the soup.
• Potatoes are first added to the cooked peas, then frying and, at the very end, herbs and garlic.
• Rusks should be added to the hot soup, just before serving.

These are the basic rules for making delicious pea soup. And so, in principle, each recipe has its own cooking technique. I offer them to your attention.

6 recipes for cooking pea soup with smoked meats:

  Pea soup. Smoked ribs recipe

I bring to your attention perhaps the most common recipe. Very hearty and delicious pea soup is perfect for a good and hearty dinner.

Ingredients:

• Peas - 300 gr.
• Potato - 5 medium size
• Carrots - 2 pcs.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Smoked ribs - 500 gr.
• Pepper
• Greenery
• Bay leaf

Cooking:

The first thing to start cooking is peas. It should be sorted out, rinse thoroughly until the water becomes clear and pour water. Pour enough water so that its level is 5-6 cm higher than peas. Soaking time is 6-7 hours. The more the peas are soaked, the better and faster they will break.

After soaking, rinse it again with cold water and let it drain. Peas should increase in size and become soft.

Pour it into a pot of water. This amount of peas needs 5 liters of water. We put on the fire and cook until tender. It will take 20-25 minutes.

On a note! If you do not have time to soak, then you can use a little trick. During cooking, when the peas boil, you need to add 0.5 teaspoon of soda. Soda promotes rapid digestion. This was stated above. Of course this is not entirely correct, but it happens that you need to cook pea soup, and so much time for soaking is not at all.

Peel the potatoes, rinse and cut into cubes. Fill with water and remove to the side.

Cut the peeled onions into thin half rings.

Cut the carrots as you like. You can even grate it with a coarse grater.

Pour the vegetable oil into the pan and heat it. First we send there only a bow.

Sprinkle with ground black pepper and fry a little over medium heat, but not much.

Add carrots to the onion. Reduce the heat to a minimum and fry the carrots a little along with the onion, stirring constantly.

Using a knife, we divide the smoked ribs. Cut the pulp into medium-sized strips.

Spread them on top of carrots with onions. Well fry on both sides.

Be sure to remove the foam from boiled peas to make the soup transparent. If this is not done, then it will be unclear.

We send potatoes to the finished peas. Salt a little and add 2 leaves of bay leaf.

Let's take croutons. We cut white bread (better yesterday, slightly stiffened) into medium-sized cubes.

We spread the bread on a baking sheet covered with paper, and send it to the oven. Dry it to a beautiful, golden color.

When the potatoes are ready, you need to add our frying of onions, carrots and ribs to the soup.

Boil for 10-15 minutes, so that the carrots are cooked to the end.

Finely chop the greens.

Pour the finished soup into a plate and add crackers. Top necessarily crush greens.

Be sure to cook according to this recipe. I am sure you will really like it. Enjoy your meal!

  Classic smoked pea soup recipe

Pea soup can be prepared with several types of smoked meats. In one soup, you can add ribs, and sausage, and ham, and sausages - in general, anything. So it will even be much tastier and more aromatic. It is on this recipe that I advise you to cook this dish.

Here we use only smoked ham and ribs, but you, in turn, can replace these ingredients with any other, to your taste.

What is needed:

• Smoked meats (ribs and ham) - 400 gr.
• Peas - 250 gr.
• Potato - 3 pcs.
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Sunflower oil - 3 tbsp.
• Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
• Crackers
• Pepper
• Water - 3.5 liters

Cooking:

Pour pre-soaked peas into a saucepan, fill with water and put on medium heat for 2 hours.

Cut the ham into small equal cubes. Separate the ribs from each other.

Finely chop the onion.

We cut the potatoes into medium-sized cubes or into cubes.

Rub carrots on a coarse grater.

Fry the onion in a pan until golden. Add carrots and sauté for 2-3 minutes.

Put the smoked meats and potatoes in the cooked peas. Mix.

Then fried vegetables.

Bring to a boil. Salt and cook until potatoes are cooked.

A few minutes before being ready, add 2 leaves of lavrushka and pepper.

Smoked pea soup is ready. Serve it on the table with crackers.

  Smoked sausage pea soup

For lovers of sausages, there is also a recipe for a delicious soup. You can use only smoked sausage, and you can use it together with sausages or sausages. In any case, an incredible taste and aroma guaranteed. Will we try?

Products for cooking:

• Peas - 500 gr.
• Potato - 1000 gr.
• Onion - 200 gr.
• Carrots - 250 gr.
• Smoked sausage - 300 gr.
• Water - 3.5 liters
• Bay leaf - 2 leaves
• Dill - 1 bunch
• Sunflower oil - 50 ml.
• Pepper

How to cook:

The washed and soaked peas are sent to the pan, pour water and put on fire. Bring to a boil.

From the boiled peas, remove the foam and cook the peas until fully cooked for 30-40 minutes. It all depends on the variety.

At this time, you need to prepare all the other ingredients. Cut the potatoes into small cubes.

We cut the sausage into cubes or into cubes.

In a frying pan with vegetable oil, fry finely chopped onions and grated carrots until soft for 7-10 minutes.

Pour potatoes into boiled peas and cook until the latter is ready.

Next comes the sausage, salt, pepper and bay leaf.

Cook over low heat for another 10 minutes.

A minute before the end of cooking, pour finely chopped dill greens.

Pea soup with sausage is ready. It can be served with or without crackers. Very tasty and satisfying. Enjoy your meal!

  Smoked chicken pea soup

The chicken cooked in the smokehouse itself is very good. But if you add it to pea soup, you get a wonderful dish with a unique aroma and taste. You can use any part of the bird, whether it's wings, brisket or legs. Or all together. The result is one - everyone will be happy by eating this dish.

What is needed:

• Smoked Chicken Brisket - 300 gr.
• Peas - 250 gr.
• Medium potato - 2 pcs.
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp.
• Butter - 1 tbsp.
• 4 slices of bread
• Pepper

How to cook:

Enter the washed, prepared peas in boiling water and cook for 10 minutes. Descale.

From the bread slices, cut the crust and cut the pulp into cubes.

In vegetable oil, lightly fry the bread cubes over high heat, stirring constantly. Salt and pepper a little.

Finely chop the onions.

We do the same with carrots.

Chicken breast cut into cubes.

Peeled potatoes are cut in any way and sent to the pot with peas. Mix and cook until tender.

Fry the brisket over high heat, stirring constantly.

In butter, fry the onions until transparent and add the carrots.

In a pot with prepared peas and potatoes, we send the brisket and sautéed vegetables.

Stir the prepared soup and leave for 10 minutes.

Before serving, sprinkle pea soup with crackers and herbs.

Smoked brisket will give your soup a unique aroma and wonderful taste. Try it and you will understand.

  How to cook (cook) pea soup with smoked meats in a slow cooker

A wonderful invention is a multicooker. It is very convenient if you have a lot to do and there is almost no time left to cook. Anyway, when I came home after a hard day, I don’t really want to stand at the stove. It is in such cases that modern household appliances come to the rescue.

Using a slow cooker, you can cook any dish and pea soup as well. Cooking in a slow cooker.

What do you need:

• Peas - 2 cups
• Medium size potatoes - 3 pcs.
• Carrots - 2 pcs.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Any smoked meats - 300 gr.
• Bay leaf
• Peppercorns

How to cook:

Pour a little oil into the multicooker bowl and set it to the "Frying" mode.

At this time, cut the onions into thin rings and rub the carrots on a coarse grater. We send it is fried in a slow cooker.

Dice the smoked meats (here sausage) and pour to the onion and carrots. Fry for 3-4 minutes.

After we add chopped potatoes to vegetables and sausage.

Pour washed peas, bay leaf, salt and pepper.

Pour boiling water to a level of 1.5 on a multicooker bowl. Mix and put on the “Soup” mode for 1 hour.

Cooking time depends on the multicooker model. Here is the cooking time for the Polaris multicooker.

Pour the finished soup into plates and sprinkle with herbs.

So that's how easy it is. And most importantly, pea soup cooked in a slow cooker tastes as good as cooked on a stove. Eat for health!

  Video recipe for cooking smoked soup

And finally, I suggest you watch the video recipe for pea soup.

Cooking pea soup with smoked meats is not too difficult, and the dish turns hearty and aromatic!

Ingredients for the preparation of smoked pea soup:

• Water 1.5 L
• Smoked meats (smoked ham, ribs or brisket) 250 g
• Split peas 1 cup
• Potato 2 pcs.
• 1 carrot
• Onion 1 pc.
• Vegetable oil (for frying vegetables) ~ 3 tablespoons
• Salt ~ 0.5 tbsp or to taste
• Ground black pepper
• Bay leaf 2 pcs.
• Greenery

The recipe for pea soup with smoked meats:

1. Put cook peas. I do not pre-soak it in advance, as in many recipes, but cook it in a quick way in 20-30 minutes, it is very convenient, because no need to pre-soak the peas and then cook it for 1-1.5 hours.
How to cook peas quickly? To do this, it is better to use not whole peas, but chopped ones, it will be cooked much faster. First sort it out and rinse well with water. Pour into a saucepan and pour peas with water so that it slightly covers it, put on fire. When the water boils, stir the peas, let the water boil a little and add some more cold water, and let it boil again. And so do it several times, the water will gradually boil away, and add cold water all the time. After 20 minutes, he will be ready peas.

2. Put water to boil. At this time, cut the smoked meat in portions, for the soup I use pork on the ribs.

3. Peel and dice the potatoes.

4. When the water boils, lay the smoked meats and cook for 15-20 minutes, then potatoes and cook until the potatoes are ready.

5. Peel the onions and carrots, chop the onions and grate the carrots. Spasser vegetables in vegetable oil.

6. When the potatoes are boiled, pour the ready-made peas and vegetables into the broth. Add salt, spices and parsley at the very end. Turn off and let it brew for 15-20 minutes.

Among the variety of soups that are prepared all over the world, a considerable place is given to pea soup, which is popular due to its nutritious value. It is distinguished from all other soups by its special taste, which is inherent only to it.

Pea soup can be cooked with whole or crushed peas, but, unlike crushed peas, which are well boiled without soaking, whole should be soaked in water for several hours before cooking. In the winter season, pea soup is cooked from dried peas. Smoked pea soup, the recipe of which will be given in this article, refers to those types of pea dishes that are very appropriate to cook in the winter.

Soup containing peas in its composition is an indispensable part of the diet of any person who wants to maintain vigor and clarity of thought until old age. It contains all the necessary components, without which the vital activity of the body is inferior. But do not forget that some types of pea soup, such as smoked pea soup, the recipe of which will be given below, are not recommended for those who adhere to the concept of separate nutrition. Consider pea soup recipes below as examples.

Smoked Pea Soup   - the recipe is simple, but at the same time, the soup cooked according to it is distinguished by its favorable taste.

• 250 g. Crushed and sorted peas;
• 300 g smoked ribs;
• 1 potato tuber (medium size);
• 1 carrot (small);
• 1 small onion head;
• salt and black pepper (to taste);
• chopped parsley (exclusively for decorating the finished dish)

First, soak the peas and let it brew for 3-4 hours, then drain the water. Swipe and cut them into small cubes. Cook the broth from smoked ribs, then strain it and bring to a boil. Add peas to the boiling broth and again wait for the next boiling. Then salt and pepper to taste, and after this half-cooked soup you need to cook another 15-20 minutes on low heat. Next, lay out the previously sliced \u200b\u200bvegetables and continue to cook until cooked, then bring the soup to a puree state using a mixer or blender.

Right before serving the soup, it is decorated with pieces of smoked meat and herbs.

Pea soup with pork ribs

To prepare, you will need:

• 250 g peas (you can take both whole and crushed);
• 450 g of pork (not greasy!) Ribs;
• 1 head of onion (large);
• 3 small carrots;
• 8 large potatoes;
• basil;
• 2 small bay leaves;
• salt and black (ground) pepper to taste.

Before cooking, the peas are soaked for a while, which will depend only on what kind of peas you have chosen: if you selected whole peas for cooking, it is advisable to soak them for longer, and if crushed, only 2-3 hours are enough.

It is necessary to fill with water and put on fire. When the meat boils, it needs to be removed and washed, and then put back into the pan and, pouring clean cool water, cook until fully cooked. Once you understand that the broth is ready, put bay leaves in a pan with it, and then strain it through a sieve, after removing the boiled ribs from it.

In the finished transparent broth, we pour the already soaked peas and bring to a boil. In a boiled broth, you need to put potatoes peeled and cut into small cubes in advance. During the cooking process, do not forget to remove the foam from the surface of the broth. When the potatoes are ready, add peeled, chopped and fried onions and carrots to the soup and cook a little more, reducing the heat to a minimum.

When the soup is ready, put the pork ribs in the pan, salt, pepper and, adding spices, you can serve.