Fans of legume dishes will love the soup with peas and tomatoes. What do you need? Chicken broth, peas of any kind, tomatoes. simple and delicious recipe.
Ingredients:
Making pea soup
Peas are soaked for 3 hours in cold water to swell and cook the product faster.
Prepare chicken broth. To do this, fill in chicken products cold water, bring to a boil, do not forget to remove the foam. After boiling, keep on fire until cooked for about 10 minutes, then put salt, pepper, parsley and turn off.
Fry for vegetable oil onion, cut into small cubes, tomato.
Add the soaked peas to the broth. Bring to a boil and cook until softened. 5 minutes before readiness, put the roasted onion and tomato, you can try again and add salt to taste, also add finely chopped garlic.
Set aside on the edge of the stove for 10 minutes to infuse. Serve with white croutons and garnish with herbs.
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Before cooking, it is necessary to soak the peas in cool water, usually done overnight. Then rinse well. But this is optional. There is a little trick: in order for the peas to swell faster, you can boil them a little in microwave oven. Thus, you will reduce the time of cooking it on the stove.
Cover the peas with water so that they are completely covered and cook in the microwave for about 20 minutes. The dishes in which the peas will be cooked should be deep, as when cooked, it gives abundant foam.
If you soaked the peas overnight, then in the morning you can already start preparing the soup.
Put the washed peas in a saucepan, pour 2-2.5 liters of water. After boiling, remove the foam that has formed, cover with a lid and cook the peas to the degree of readiness that suits you. It usually takes 1 - 1.5 hours.
Lean pea soup will be more satisfying if you prepare more starchy vegetables. So, peel the potatoes, carrots, garlic and onions. Cut the potatoes and add to the pot with the peas.
An important addition: pea dishes are salted only after final preparation, otherwise the peas may not boil.
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Cut garlic cloves in half. Fry them in hot oil until golden brown. Take the garlic out of the pan. It won't be needed anymore.
Saute the chopped onion in this garlic oil until translucent. Coarsely chop the carrots and add to the onion. As soon as the carrots and onions are fried, put tomato paste, mix well and turn off the heat.
Once the peas and potatoes are cooked, add the roast to the soup. Now you can salt and pepper the soup, as well as, if desired, season with any favorite spices.
It takes a little more, about 5 minutes, to simmer the soup over low heat. After turning off the heat, add chopped greens.
Lean pea soup is ready!
Split peas - 2 cups (500 gr.).
Potatoes - 300 gr. (~ 2 large or 4 medium potatoes).
Onion - 2 small onions.
Carrots - 50 gr. (1 small carrot).
Tomatoes - 250 gr. (~ 2 medium size tomatoes).
Sweet pepper - 150 gr. (1 medium sized pod).
Hot pepper - 1 small pod.
Garlic - 3 large cloves.
Dill greens - to taste.
Bay leaf.
Ground cinnamon - ½ tsp.
Salt - to taste.
Water - 3 liters.
1. Peel potatoes, one onion and carrots and wash well. Rinse the second onion well along with the husk. Remove seeds from sweet and spicy peppers and wash. Rinse leeks and tomatoes thoroughly. 
2. Wash the peas, add water, put the unpeeled onion and put on fire. Cook from the moment of boiling for about 1 hour, periodically removing the resulting foam. 
3. While the peas are cooking, prepare the vegetables for the soup:
Cut potatoes into cubes.
Cut the peeled onion into cubes. Leek - half rings.
Cut carrots into strips. Cut the tomatoes, pour over boiling water, remove the skin and cut into cubes.
Sweet pepper cut into cubes.
Garlic, herbs, hot pepper - chop.
4. Saute onion in vegetable oil until transparent, add leek to it and simmer a little. 
5. Add tomatoes to the onion and simmer everything together until the tomatoes turn into gruel. 
6. An hour after boiling the peas, remove the onion from the broth and put carrots and potatoes in the broth. Boil. 
6. As soon as the soup boils, add the fried tomatoes and onions, put the sweet and hot peppers, garlic and herbs. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 5 minutes. 
7. At the end, salt, add bay leaf and cinnamon and simmer for another 3 minutes. 
Enjoy your meal!
Pea soup- a familiar taste from childhood. Try to experiment and add tomatoes, you will get a new very tasty pea soup with tomatoes.
This soup is very good in fasting, because original recipe it is cooked without meat. If you want to cook it in meat broth, then boil the meat and boil the peas in the finished broth.
I don’t eat meat, so I always cook lean soups, and for my husband I buy smoked brisket and add it to the plate already. Or I cook the meat separately and add the broth and meat to the plate when heated. Everyone is happy)))
How to cook pea soup
I love thick soups, and I love pea soups when they get very thick, almost like porridge, so if you like thinner soups, then reduce the amount of peas.
To prepare lean pea soup with tomatoes, we need
- chopped green peas - a little more than 2 glasses (2.5 liters per pan)
- onion - 1 head
- carrots - 1 root vegetable
- tomatoes - 3 pieces
- tomato paste - 2-3 tablespoons (optional)
- potatoes - 3 tubers
- pepper mix - to taste
- salt - to taste
- vegetable oil for frying
How to make pea soup
- If you are making yellow whole pea soup, it is best to soak it for a few hours.
- Wash the peas thoroughly, cover with cold water and cook until tender. If you are making soup from yellow whole peas, then it is better to soak it for several hours and only then boil it. I usually cook from green split peas, it cooks for 40 minutes.
- While the peas are cooking, let's make the dressing. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes.
- Simmer in preheated vegetable oil until the color changes.
- We clean the carrots, rub on a coarse grater and add to the stew to the onion.
- My tomatoes, cut into small cubes and send to the pan with vegetables. We simmer over medium heat under a closed lid so that the juice from the tomatoes does not evaporate. For more sourness, you can add a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste to the frying.
- Peel potatoes and cut into small cubes. Add to the peas when the peas are almost completely boiled.
- Add the frying to the pans, add boiling water and cook until the potatoes are ready.
- 5-7 minutes before readiness, add spices to taste, a couple of tablespoons and bay leaf.
Lean pea soup ready with tomatoes!