American
Split Pea Soup
Split Pea Soup is American home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre, the protein alongside, and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 lb dried green split peas
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion
- 3 carrots
- 3 celery stalks
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 Yukon gold potato
- 8 cups vegetable broth
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Rinse and pick over the split peas.
- Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium and cook the onion, carrots, celery, and garlic until soft, about 7 minutes.
- Stir in the smoked paprika and thyme, then add the split peas, diced potato, broth, and bay leaves.
- Bring to a boil, then reduce to a low simmer and cook, stirring now and then, until the peas break down into a thick soup, about 55 minutes.
- Discard the bay leaves and season with the salt and pepper, mashing some of the peas for a creamier texture.
- Thin with a little water if needed and serve hot.
Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Split Pea Soup, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Split Pea Soup carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Partial
- Food groups it covers
- Pulses and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Split Pea Soup takes about 75 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on split pea, carrot, and celery.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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