Yellow Pea Soup

Name: Yellow Pea Soup
Ingredients: 7 ounces salt pork; 9 ounces yellow split peas; 2 shallots, finely chopped; 2 celery ribs, thinly sliced; 2 carrots, diced; 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped; 2 tbsp. curry powder; 1 tsp. ground turmeric; 4 ¼ cups vegetable stock; 1 ⅔ cups coconut milk; 2 stalks of lemongrass, bruised; 3 makrut lime leaves; ½ red onion, thinly sliced; 2 tbsp. red wine vinegar; ⅓ cup katjang pedis (spicy peanuts), coarsely chopped; 10 celery leaves, finely chopped; 1 tbsp. sambal, mixed with 2 tbsp. sunflower oil; 1 tbsp. sambal, mixed with 2 tbsp. sunflower oil

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Good Soup

By Joris Bijdendijk and Samuel Levie

Published 2023

About

Ingredients

7 ounces salt pork
9 ounces yellow split peas
¼ cup

Soup
Gluten-free

Method

Put the salt pork in a pan of cold water and cook for 40 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside. Meanwhile, wash the split peas in cold water.

Heat the sunflower oil over medium-high heat in a tall saucepan and add the shallots, celery, carrots, and garlic; sauté for a few minutes. Add the curry powder and turmeric and sauté briefly. Deglaze with the vegetable stock and add the coconut