Kitchen Sink Soup

Everything in it but the kitchen sink; a stick-to-your-ribs winter soup. One of our favourites when the wind starts a-blowin' and the grey skies start a-snowin'. Don't be tempted to use onions instead of leeks now. The leeks are required. Like all pea soups, better the next day.

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 1  cup  dried split green peas
• 1  cup  dried split yellow peas
• 1  cup brown lentils
• 8  cups water
• 3 -4  bay leaves
• 2  medium leeks
• 1  large carrot
• 3  stalks celery
• 2  cups  chopped cabbage
• 4  cups crushed tomatoes
• 2  tablespoons  vegetable oil
•  salt

Directions

1. Wash and pick over the peas and lentils and cook them in 8 cups of water with the bay leaves until the peas are mushy and the lentils are cooked.
2. Meanwhile, trim, chop, and wash the leeks.
3. Peel and grate the carrot.
4. Saute them until soft in 1 tbsp of the oil, and add them to the soup.
5. Chop the celery and the cabbage.
6. Saute them together in the remaining vegetable oil until limp.
7. Add them to the soup with the tomatos and add salt to taste.
8. Simmer to blend.
9. Heat up and serve the next day.