Split pea soup. Neverending pot of food.

[fuzzybabybunny]

First time making split pea soup. I took a 2lb pre-smoked ham hock, some random pieces of pork, 5 carrots, and cooked it in the 6qt pressure cooker with two small 1lb bags of split peas.

Holy. Crap.

For one, the dry ingredients probably only come up to a quarter of the level of the pot. And that's including the meat. But the peas somehow require 4x+ that amount of water to stay a soupy-consistency.

Basically, it turned into half a 6qt pot of mashed split peas. I keep on dumping cup after cup of water into it. It gets soupy at first and then returns to mashed consistency after a couple minutes of stirring. I put in maybe 10 more cups of water and it's still pretty thick.

My 3 roommates and I pound 2 bowls each of the stuff and then we add more water to combat the added thickness from sitting and it's close to being back to its original volume of food before we even started eating it and still a thicker than soup consistency.

Need to solve world hunger? Legumes.

 

[ElFenix]

both peas and beans are legumes, but beans are not peas.


you should try red beans and rice, massive amount of food for a little dry/fresh ingredients

 

[wirednuts]

slimey shits too?

 

[chusteczka]

Split pea soup is awesome. Although I disliked it as a child.

The Polish army specializes in making this. They have a delicious way of cooking it than cannot be reproduced elsewhere.

 

[NetWareHead]

Yes it is great soup. For next time, it sounds like you need to add much more water to the pressure cooker to start out with.

 

[Anubis]

humm never made it with a Pcooker, i normally pre soak the peas and puree 1/2 of them before starting

 

[dud]

humm never made it with a Pcooker, i normally pre soak the peas and puree 1/2 of them before starting

You do not have to use a pressure cooker or puree them ... just gently boil them for an hour or so and they will fall apart.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

This is making me want a bowl of ham and lima beans

 

[Anubis]

You do not have to use a pressure cooker or puree them ... just gently boil them for an hour or so and they will fall apart.

true but i like to make mine like green mashed potatoes with ham, pureeing helps this happen faster

 

[Born2bwire]

So how many days do we give him until he comes back complaining of some mysterious vitamin deficiency?

 

[Sinsear]

This is making me want a bowl of ham and lima beans

Lima beans are small turds of the devil

 

[MontyAC]

yummy

 

[SunnyD]

Best part of split pea soup is shitting green for the next three days.

 

[clamum]

Split pea with ham soup is fucking EPIC. My mom makes a goddamn good homemade version but even Campbells is great.

 

[mmntech]

Classic French Canadian split pea soup is a winter staple in my house. Best made with a ham hock. Habitant is still the best canned version of it, though it's a lot runnier than it used to be. The old stuff was thick enough to stand a spoon upright!

 

[CPA]

Personally, I don't know what's worse - peas or mushrooms. Those two foods will literally make me gag if I eat them. Disgusting things.

 

[NetWareHead]

This is the territory where pressure cookers shine. Cooking time is halved, less energy and less heat dumped into the kitchen. I have an old one that is a POS and beat up but it works. I made a beef stew once using brisket with 30 minutes of cooking time and the meat was fork tender.

 

[BoomerD]

I don't mind GOOD split-pea soup...but you DO NOT want to be within 20-30 miles of me for a couple of days afterwards...

 

[KMFJD]

Used to get split pea soup at least twice a month as a kid, wasn't my favorite

 

[Krazy4Real]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[DigDog]

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search no more, oh soup brother