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Peas Soup and Dumpling

Name: Peas Soup and Dumpling
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Bahamas
Ingredients: 300g Green peas; 150g Bacon; 1 Potato; 1 Onion; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; A pinch Thyme; 1/2 Chili pepper; 150g All-purpose flour; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 1.5L Water

Soup

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Pigeon pea and salted meat soup with flour dumplings — the Bahamas' Saturday soup.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Peas soup and dumpling is a soup often made in Bahamian homes on Saturdays: pigeon peas are stewed with salted pork or beef, tomato, and thyme, and flour dumplings are added for a thick finish. Hearty, it's a meal in itself.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At Saturday lunch in a Bahamian home, white dumplings float in thick pea soup served to the family in big bowls.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Green peas 300g
Bacon 150g
Potato 1
Onion 1
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Thyme A pinch
Chili pepper 1/2
All-purpose flour 150g
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Water 1.5L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Simmer the bacon and water in a pot for 20 minutes.
Add the peas, diced potatoes, onion, tomato paste, thyme, and chili and simmer 30 minutes.
Knead the flour, a little salt, and 5 tbsp water into a dough and form small flat dumplings.
Add the dumplings to the soup and simmer 15 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper.

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