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Pea Soup

March 25, 2020 Penny 5 Comments

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Delicious Pea Soup

Pea Soup

Pea soup is very comforting, sweet and delicious and the taste, for me, takes me back to childhood. Made with marrowfat dried peas the it reminds me of tea times and mushy peas and especially with fish and chips.

Being a Yorkshire lass originally, take away fish and chips were quite a regular meal during my childhood, always accompanied by mushy peas.

Pea Soup is one of those delicious basic soups that you may have forgotten about in a world of more exotic ingredients and flavours! Try it – you will like it!

Marrowfat Peas

How are marrowfat peas different from garden peas? This is a question I needed to look up, since I wasn’t sure. It seems ordinary garden peas are picked when still young, small and sweet whereas marrowfat peas are left to mature on the plant. They are grown and harvested especially for drying.

You do need to soak the peas overnight in plenty of water before using them. Dissolve some with bicarbonate of soda into boiling water. Some dried peas come with bicarbonate of soda tablets to add to the water. If this is the case, just follow the instructions on the packet.

Low Cost Soup

This a very economical soup. With the peas costing just over 50p, the whole soup costs less than £1 to serve 4 people. You can buy dried peas in bulk even cheaper.

The recipe uses a knob of butter to fry the vegetables in and this makes a good addition to the flavour. Butter and peas do rather go together! If you don’t have butter you can use margarine or sunflower oil. You can cook the peas with any green vegetables – it doesn’t have to be leek. In fact it is a great recipe for using up some leftover veg that is looking a bit sorry for itself!

The soup only takes about 20 minutes to cook. You know the peas are throroughly cooked when little pieces of skin are floating on the top, like small jellyfish! Then just place in the liqudiser for a smooth soup.

A Pea Souper

Just as an aside, making pea soup made me think of the term a ‘pea souper’ to refer to the thick London smogs made of fog, pollution and soot. When you see the dense thick texture of the pe soup, you can understand the term! It was this smog in 1952 that led to legislation to help cut pollution. See the video below to see what it was really like.

Peas soup is certainly ideal for lunch on a foggy winters day

Pea Soup Recipe

Ingredients

  • 250g / 8oz Dried marrowfat peas
  • Boiling water for soaking
  • 2 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
  • 1 teaspoon butter
  • 2 medium leeks, sliced
  • 1 medium carrot, peeled and chopped
  • 1 medium potato, peeled and chopped
  • 1 litre vegetable stock

Cooking Directions

  1. Place the marrowfat peas in a bowl
  2. Measure 1.5 litres boiling water
  3. Add 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda – or use tablets provided with pack
  4. Pour over peas and leave to soak overnight – at least 12 hours
  5. Rinse the peas thoroughly to prepare for use
  6. In a large saucepan, heat the butter
  7. Add the leek and saute for a few minutes
  8. Add the carrot and potato and sweat for a few minutes
  9. Add the peas and stock
  10. Bring to the boil and simmer for about 20 minutes until the vegetables are soft
  11. Season with salt and black pepper
  12. Place in a liquidiser until smooth
  13. Return to the saucepan to heat through
  14. Serve with crusty bread

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Comments

  1. Margaret Parminter says

    December 7, 2023 at 4:58 pm

    I used 12oz of Lockwood’s frozen mushy peas (basically presoaked and frozen) rather than soaking my own marrowfats, just a guesstimate of how much 8oz of dried peas weighed post soaking and followed the rest of the recipe to the letter, it was b****y lovely!!

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    • Penny says

      December 14, 2023 at 12:22 pm

      Great tip – thank you!!

      Reply
  2. Keith says

    October 17, 2021 at 2:23 pm

    Hi Penny, thank you for the recipe. I have not had real home made soup for years! Being from Nottingham and my county being a neiighbour of your county Yorkshire, it was so refreshing to find a down to earth pea soup recipe. I have made it and as expected it was delicious. Perfect
    Thanks again

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  3. Yvonne Matthews says

    August 16, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    Hello Penny, we absolutely love this pea soup recipe and make it regularly. I have recently started using Piterest and I would like to pin this recipe but the pin link doesn’t seem to be working. I was wondering if there is anything you can do to make it work. Don’t worry if not, I’ll just keep using the printed copy of the recipe that I have.
    Kindest regards
    Yvonne Matthews

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    • Penny says

      August 25, 2015 at 9:27 pm

      Hmmm thanks for highlighting. Not sure why that is happeninng – I will look into it……

      Reply

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