Pea porridge with soaking

Pea porridge with soaking is simple, tasty, healthy. Pea porridge with soaking is a simple and completely labor-intensive recipe. It's just that you need to soak the peas ahead of time - it means to think over your menu for the next day in advance. The peas soaked overnight will swell and it will not be difficult to cook porridge from it. The proposed recipe is basic, you can supplement it to your taste with any meat products, smoked meats, toasted vegetables or even mushrooms.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 32 % 8 g
Fats 0 % 0 g
Carbohydrates 68 % 17 g
101 kcal
GI: 0 / 100 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 8 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    To prepare pea porridge, take dried yellow peas, water and salt. Peas need to be soaked in cold water, which is good to change a couple of times during soaking. This will save you from the bubbling of gases in the intestines later. The soaking time is more than 6 hours. It is most convenient to soak the peas overnight.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    In the morning, swollen peas should be well washed several times, draining the pea flour.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Put the peas on a sieve and rinse - it's more convenient this way.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Put the soaked peas in a saucepan.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Pour clean water in a ratio of 1:2, you can do a little less, because the peas have already absorbed a lot of water, or just then hold the lid open a little so that the excess water boils off at the end of cooking the peas.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    The cooking time of soaked peas depends on the variety and quality of the peas that you have. Usually this time is 25-55 minutes. At the end of cooking, add salt to taste. Porridge can be served in this form - when the individual halves of the city are viewed in the overall texture of the porridge.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    And you can punch with a blender and serve the pea porridge in a puree-like state.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Add butter or vegetable oil, finely chopped greens to the pea porridge.

Pea porridge with soaking is a simple recipe that came from the distant past. After all, peas used to be one of the main vegetable food products in Russia, it was not for nothing that the proverb arose: "It was still under Tsar Peas!", emphasizing that Russian people have been eating peas for a long time, long before potatoes, which Tsar Peter 1 brought to Russia.
Pea porridge is prepared lean or skoromnaya - with meat, pork rinds, stewed meat, pies and pancakes used to be baked with pea porridge. Peas go well with most foods. Choose the option to your taste, bon appetit!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Yellow peas - 303   kcal/100g

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