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Hernesupp

Name: Hernesupp
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Estonia
Ingredients: 300g Yellow split peas; 200g (in one piece) Bacon; 2 Potato; 1 Carrot; 1 Onion; 1 Bay leaf; A pinch Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 1.5L Water; To taste Rye bread

Soup

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Dried peas simmered with smoked pork — the pea soup Estonians eat on Shrove Tuesday.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Hernesupp is the pea soup Estonians always eat on Vastlapäev (Shrove Tuesday). Dried peas are simmered with smoked pork until meltingly soft. On this day children sled down hills, and it's said the farther they slide, the better the flax will grow in summer.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In February in Estonia, children back from sledding on snowy hills sit down in the kitchen before steaming yellow pea soup and dark bread.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Yellow split peas 300g
Bacon 200g (in one piece)
Potato 2
Carrot 1
Onion 1
Bay leaf 1
Salt A pinch
Black Pepper A pinch
Water 1.5L
Rye bread To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rinse the peas and soak overnight.
Put the peas, whole bacon block, bay leaf, and water in a pot and simmer 1 hour, skimming.
Add the diced potato and carrot and chopped onion and simmer 30 minutes.
Remove the bacon, cut into bite-sized pieces, and return to the pot.
Season with salt and pepper and serve with rye bread.

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