Does anyone have a recipe for real Dutch Pea soup that you can stand a spoon up in :)?

500 gram splitpeas


1 piece of ham on the bone 500 grams


1 rack of spareribs or two pigsfeet


100 grams of Bacon


1 smoked sausage. (the dutch ones obviously)


2 unions


1 carrot


2 leaks


1 turnip-rooted celery


2 potatoes


1 bundle leaf selery


pepper and salt


2 litres of water


bread. (rybread preferably)





wash the peas, and put them in a pan along with the meat (not the smoked sausage). boil it for several minutes. get rid of the foam. and refresh the water. the slowly bring to the boil.





while the meat and peas are boiling. prepare the vegetables.


peal the potatoes, turnip-root and dice carrots and unions. quarter the leaks (cut crosses over the length) wash them and part them in to centimeter long pieces. put all the vegetables into the pan.





remove the meat from the pan. to debone it. dice the meat. put the meat back in the pan. was the selery leaves. cus the leaves coarsly and mix them in with the soup. at the last moment ad in the diced smoked sausage and heat for 15 minutes. taste the soup, and add pepper and salt to taste.





the soup should be edible by now. but it hasnt yet thickened. turn off the heat, and leave the soup for one day. to thicken.





make sure you stir the soup well when reheating or the bottom of hte pan will burn.

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