THICK PEA SOUP
Serves 6 - 8
1 large onion, finely chopped
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1 clove of garlic, crushed
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4 celery stalks with leaves, finely chopped
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2 carrots, coarsely
grated
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1 large potato, peeled and coarsely grated
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1 large
turnip, peeled and coarsely grated
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750 g – 1 kg smoked pork
knuckles or beef shin on bone (or any other soup meat on
bone)
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250 g (300 ml) dried green split peas, well rinsed
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1,5 litres vegetable or chicken stock
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20 ml dried mixed herbs
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2 bay leaves
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lemon juice, salt and freshly ground black
pepper to taste
Heat
AMC 8 litre Speedcooker® or Electrospeed®,
with a normal AMC 24 cm lid on, over medium
temperature (probe on 6) until Visiotherm® reaches
first red area.
Sauté
onion, garlic and celery until
transparent.
Add
carrots, potato and turnip and sauté
for another 2 - 3 minutes.
Add
rest of ingredients,
except lemon juice, salt and pepper and bring to the
boil.
Seal
with Speedcooker® lid and heat until the
red ring on the indicator shows. Reduce temperature
slightly to maintain indicator at this level (probe on 4 –
5).
Cook
soup for 15 - 20 minutes. Turn heat off and
allow indicator to drop completely. Release any excess
steam before the lid is opened, by pressing down the
red safety valve.
Spoon
meat from soup and remove
bone and any excess fat and skin. Cube meat and add
to soup. Season to taste and serve with bread.
VARIATIOn:
Bean soup in Speedcooker:
Use 250 g (310 ml) dried
beans (for example, speckled sugar beans) instead of
the peas. Use beef shin on bone instead of pork or half
the quantity of each. The beans need no soaking and
will cook for 50 - 60 minutes in the Speedcooker. Al-
low indicator to drop completely before opening the
lid. Once cooked, remove meat and cube. Blend half
of the bean mixture in a food processor. Add to rest of
soup with meat and 2 ripe tomatoes, skinned, seeded
and chopped. Stir in 15 ml tomato paste and simmer
with normal lid on for 10 minutes. Season to taste and
garnish with chopped parsley. Don’t add tomatoes,
lemon juice or salt to beans before they are cooked.
These ingredients prevent beans from softening.
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