Split Pea Soup

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Cooking time: 40 minutes
Preparation time: 10 minutes

Makes: 6 servings

    

Ingredients

• 2 cups   split peas
• 2 qts.   water
• 1         carrot, chopped
• 1         yellow onion, chopped
• 1         celery stalk, chopped
• 1         bay leaf, minced
• 2 t.     salt
• 1/4 t.   black pepper
• 1/8 t.   Cajun cayenne pepper seasoning
• 1/4 t.   dried thyme, rubbed between your palms

    

Directions

1. Pick over and rinse peas well. Add all ingredients, cover, and boil 20 minutes.

2. Turn down heat and simmer 20 minutes more.

3. Mash peas with potato masher.

Recipe adapted from "Pea Soup Andersen's Scandinavian-American Cookbook", Berkeley, California,1988

 

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