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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Turkish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan, then put in the bits of bacon and the pepper. | 2. Sauté for just a few seconds, then add the onion, celery and carrots. | 3. Cook until the onion goes clear, then add the tomato sauce and stir constantly for 1-2 minutes until the tomato sugars start to caramelise. | 4. Add the thyme, bay leaf and peas, plus salt and pepper to taste. | 5. Add 2-3 cups of water to cover the mixture. | 6. Stir, cover the pot and let it simmer over a low heat for about 20 minutes. | 7. Add another cup of water and let simmer, covered, for another 20 minutes. | 8. Keep checking on the pot and adding water a cup at a time until the peas are cooked and the soup is as thin or as thick as you like it. | 9. This takes about an hour, for me. | 10. Use a hand blender to blitz the soup slightly, but don't purée it. | 11. You still want some of the texture of the bacon and carrots. | 12. Remove the bay leaf and, if possible, let the soup sit for a few hours before serving to help the flavours develop. | 13. You may need to add some more water, salt and pepper when you re-heat it. | 14. If you like, you can crumble any extra bacon over the soup before serving, as well as a fresh grinding of pepper. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
vegetable oil	2	tablespoons		234.46400000000003	0.0	0.0	27.2
bacon	4 -6	slices	cooked crumbled	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
chili flake black	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
white onion	1		chopped	60.0	14.01	1.65	0.15
celery	2	stalks	chopped	20.48	3.8016	0.8832	0.2176
carrot	1	cup	chopped	52.48	12.2624	1.1904	0.3072
tomato sauce	4	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
thyme	3	stalks		-	-	-	-
bay leaf	1			-	-	-	-
yellow pea	1	cup	split	-	-	-	-
water	6 -7	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
salt				-	-	-	-
pepper				-	-	-	-

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