Yellow Split Pea Puree With Vegetables
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 8 ounces yellow split peas
- 550 ml water
- 2 medium onions, peeled and sliced
- 1 medium carrot, scraped and sliced
- 1 leek, cleaned and sliced
- 1 stalk celery, sliced
- dried mint, to taste (maybe a generous pinch)
- dried marjoram, to taste
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- salt & freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 1 1⁄2 ounces butter
directions
- Soak the split peas in water for at least on hour; drain and rinse them.
- Put split peas into a saucepan with the water, half the sliced onion and all the other vegetables and herbs; bring to the boil and let them simmer gently for about 30 minutes until the peas are soft and the vegetables tender.
- Liquidize the mixture, then season with lemon juice, salt and pepper; spoon the mixture into a shallow heat-proof dish.
- Fry the remaining onion in the butter until it’s beginning to soften, then pour the onion and butter over the puree.
- Place the puree under a fairly hot grill until the top is slightly crusted and the onion is crisp and brown.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.