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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> UK >> English

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Cover two cups of split peas with water and allow to soak for a little over one hour. | 2. Pour off the water and put the peas into a large saucepan with one quart fresh water. Add salt. Bring to a boil and skim the water, the cover the pan and simmer steadily. | 3. Melt one tablespoon of butter in a soup kettle and drop in 1/2 cup of finely diced salt pork. Cook until the pork begins to brown. Add onion and saute until soft but not brown. Now add the carrot, tops of the leeks and spinach. Drop in a small piece of bay leaf and a pinch of thyme. | 4. Cook for a few minutes more and then pour in the partly cooked peas with their water. Continue to cook for about one hour, or until the peas are very soft. Rub the soup through a fine sieve and add one cup of stock, then bring back to a boil. | 5. Season to taste with salt and add sugar, butter and heavy cream. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
pea	2	cups	split	82.32	14.798	5.4879999999999995	0.392
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
butter	1	tablespoon		85.5	3.9285	2.6715	7.2
salt pork	1/2	cup	diced	-	-	-	-
onion	1		chopped	44.0	10.274000000000001	1.21	0.11
carrot	1		chopped	25.01	5.8438	0.5673	0.1464
leek	2		chopped	108.58	25.186999999999998	2.67	0.534
spinach	1	cup	chopped	6.9	1.089	0.858	0.11699999999999999
bay leaf				-	-	-	-
thyme	1	pinch		0.0505	0.0122	0.0028	0.0008
stock	1	cup		171.36	18.6732	6.3252	8.0892
salt				-	-	-	-
sugar	1	teaspoon		18.354	4.5908	0.0	0.0
butter	1	tablespoon		85.5	3.9285	2.6715	7.2
heavy cream	1/2	cup		204.0	1.6440000000000001	1.704	21.648000000000003

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.