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Soupe aux pois

Name: Soupe aux pois
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Canada
Ingredients: 300g Yellow split peas; 150g Bacon; 1 Onion; 1 Carrot; 1 Celery; 1 Bay leaf; 2L Water; A pinch Salt; A pinch Black Pepper

Soup

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Quebec's long-standing yellow pea soup, simmered with salt pork.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Soupe aux pois was brought by French settlers in the 17th century and is a classic of the Quebec winter table. Yellow split peas are simmered with salt pork or a ham bone until they fall apart. It's also a fixture of the meals at Quebec's sugar shacks, the cabanes à sucre.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a spring sugar shack where maple sap is boiled down, families at long tables pass around big bowls of yellow pea soup.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Yellow split peas 300g
Bacon 150g
Onion 1
Carrot 1
Celery 1
Bay leaf 1
Water 2L
Salt A pinch
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rinse the peas and soak overnight in plenty of water.
Put the drained peas, water, the bacon in one piece, and the bay leaf in a pot and bring to a boil.
Skim, then simmer on low for 1 hour.
Add the chopped onion, carrot, and celery and simmer another hour until the peas break down.
Lift out the bacon, chop it, and return it to the pot.
Season with salt and pepper.

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