Pea soup with smoked bacon

Delicious and satisfying, easy and simple to cook, for the whole family! Pea soup with smoked bacon turns out to be so fragrant that it is simply impossible to resist it. You can adjust the cooking time by choosing different varieties of peas or the right technique - a slow cooker, a pressure cooker.

Julia M.

Recipe author

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Peas

100

Fat (smoked)

200

Potatoes

Onion

Carrots

Water

Salt

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 8 % 1 g

Fats 46 % 6 g

Carbohydrates 46 % 6 g

79 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h

Step 1:
How to make pea soup with smoked bacon? Prepare the necessary ingredients for this. Smoked lard gives pea soup a unique flavor. Instead of bacon, you can take smoked bacon or smoked ribs. The whole relish of the finished soup lies in the aroma of smoking. I use split peas, which does not require soaking. According to the cooking time of the peas, follow the instructions on the package.
Step 2:
Pour water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add the peas and cook for 20 minutes.
Step 3:
Peel the onion and carrot. Rinse the vegetables from dirt and chop. Finely chop the onion and grate the carrots.
Step 4:
Separately preheat the pan to a hot state. Cut the smoked bacon into pieces. The part of the fat that I cut larger with meat, and the clean fat into small pieces so that they are fried. Put the lard in a dry frying pan without oil and fry for 2-3 minutes. A sufficient amount of fat will be melted from the fat for roasting.
Step 5:
Then add the chopped onions and carrots to the pan. Mix everything and fry for another 2-3 minutes.
Step 6:
Peel the potatoes and cut them into pieces. Put the sliced potatoes in a saucepan with the peas.
Step 7:
Then add the roast with lard. Mix it up. Add salt to taste. Cook everything together for another 20 minutes. During this time, the peas will have time to cook. The potatoes will become soft, and the fried smoked bacon will give all its taste and aroma to the soup.
Step 8:
Remove the finished soup from the heat, pour on plates and serve hot. Bon appetit!

For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral to taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.

Important! Regardless of whether the amount of water for soup is indicated in the recipe or not, it is best to focus on your own preferences (thick or more liquid soup you like), as well as on the size of your pan and the products taken for cooking. Do not forget that the author has his own view on the amount of meat, potatoes, cereals and other ingredients in the soup, which may not coincide with yours. In practice, this means that if you are cooking for the first time, you should not cook a whole pot at once. Make a soup for tasting - for one or two people. To do this, reduce the amount of all ingredients according to the recipe to 1-2 servings, and take the amount of water from the calculation: from one cup per serving - if the soup is very thick, to 1.5-2 cups - if more liquid. Do not forget to take into account that part of the liquid will boil off during the cooking process. After tasting a small portion of soup, you can adjust both the amount of liquid and the proportions of ingredients to your taste. In the future, like most experienced housewives, you will be able to pour water for soup and lay the ingredients “by eye".