
Netherlands / Soup
Erwtensoep
A thick split pea soup with smoked sausage, dense enough for a spoon to stand in it.
Ingredients
- Split peas500 g
- Pork ribs500 g
- Pork belly300 g
- Rookworst400 g
- Celeriac300 g
- Leeks2
- Carrots3
- Potatoes400 g
- Onion1
- Celery leaves30 g
- Rye bread, to serve300 g
- Salt and pepperto taste
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Rinse the peas and cover them, with the ribs and belly, in two and a half litres of cold water.
Bring it up, skim and simmer an hour, until the peas start breaking down.
Add the potato, carrot, celeriac and onion and cook another hour, stirring so nothing catches.
Lift out the meat, strip it from the bones and return it to the soup in pieces.
Add the sliced leek and celery leaves and cook twenty minutes.
Cool it completely and leave it overnight in the fridge; the soup thickens.
Reheat it, add the sliced sausage for five minutes and serve with rye bread.





