Peas are tasty and useful product, popular not only in our country. In the Arab countries, India and Latin America, legumes form the basis of the diet - here mashed potatoes and pea porridge on the water with different spices are a national treat. They are loved for their large amount of protein and moderate calorie content (80 calories per 100 grams of product). In this article, we’ll talk about exactly how you can cook pea porridge (pea), and also reveal some secrets with which you can quickly cook pea porridge and make the dish more useful and unusual.
Everyone knows the taste of pea porridge from childhood
Peas can be whole, chopped, green, yellow. The whole unpeeled look is more useful, but you will have to be patient - it takes longer to cook, and before cooking, you should soak the product in water for several hours.
If you need pea porridge without soaking, you should buy a peeled look in the store (in the form of small halves). It is better polished, softens faster than the whole. If you still soak it for 1-2 hours before cooking, the dish will be more like mashed potatoes.
Choosing between green and yellow grains for porridge? The nutritional value and their calorie content is the same, but the taste and texture are different. The green look is tender, soft, boils faster. The yellow varieties have more dietary fiber, they will be tougher.
Principles of proper cooking
Peas must be sorted out, washed (it will take 5-6 glasses of water) until the cloudy liquid disappears. This is necessary to remove powdery dust. It gives the dish a bitter taste. In addition, if you do not wash the legumes, the dish can turn into a sticky puree.
Peas do not have to be soaked (as mentioned above - it depends on the type of legume chosen). But if you still hold it in water, then it will turn out to cook such porridge the fastest. Ideally, leave the product to swell for 4-5 hours. It is better not to keep it longer than 10 hours (it will soften and you will get mashed potatoes).
How long to cook pea porridge depends on which recipe you choose and how much porridge you decide to cook. The express option will take 40 minutes, the longer one - 1.5-2 hours.
The result depends on the quality of the peas
The recipe includes a trick - the use of thick-walled dishes. Porridge from peas burns strongly, it is correct to do it in a cauldron, a cast-iron pan with a thick bottom. You can take ducklings for cooking. The dish is cooked over low heat with constant stirring - this will protect it from burning.
Lean option
simple and delicious recipe- lean pea porridge. To make it, you need to take:
- 500 g chopped variety, preferably green.
- 2 medium sized onions.
- 2 medium tomatoes, ripe but firm
- 1.5 teaspoons of salt.
- 3 art. tablespoons of vegetable oil.
We know that it’s easier for some to look at a recipe with a photo, so let’s describe the process and add step-by-step photos:
Step 1: Rinse and Soak , changing water up to 5 times.
Stage 2: Fill with water by 1.5 centimeters, put on fire. Cooked for 2-3 hours with a half-open lid. Beans should be stirred regularly to avoid burning.
Stage 3: Fry the onion, then add the tomatoes without the skin there.
Step 4: A few minutes before cooking, put the dressing in the pan, now you need to salt and pepper. Simmer over low heat covered for 5 minutes. Then arrange on plates, decorate with herbs.
Such a dish fully reveals the aroma, it thickens and becomes saturated the next day after cooking.
Pea porridge with onions goes well with different vegetables. For example, many people like pea porridge with mushrooms - you can use champignons, boletus, porcini mushrooms, chanterelles.
Cooking method for meat eaters
The classic recipe is pea porridge with mushrooms and meat. Such delicious dish satisfying (287 calories per 100 grams), so small portions will be required to saturate.
Done within an hour and a half. You can cook pea porridge quite in a simple way. You will need:
- 600 g of boneless pork, beef or poultry (pea porridge with bacon or smoked meats is also delicious).
- 1.5-2 cups of peas
- 1 medium carrot
- 1 medium onion
- 300 g mushrooms
- 1.5 teaspoons of the mixture provencal herbs
- 0.5 teaspoon ground paprika
- 1 st. a spoonful of olive oil
- Salt.
Let's describe the recipe step by step. Rinse, soak the peas in water (30-50 minutes). Cut the meat into cubes 2.5x2.5 cm. Put the pan on the stove, heat olive oil. Dip the meat in the pan, fry until light brown. Prepare vegetables: peel onions, carrots. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, cut the onion into cubes, and cut the mushrooms into strips. Add vegetables to meat, simmer, stirring. Cook the meat for 5 minutes over medium heat. Sprinkle with paprika, a mixture of Provence herbs, salt.
Transfer the meat to a saucepan with a thick bottom, add the grains, fill with water 1.5 centimeters higher. Cooked yummy will be ready in an hour and a half. If you keep it on fire for a longer time, you will get mashed potatoes.
When the pea porridge is ready, you can serve with any herbs, seasoned with oil. The pea porridge recipe can be supplemented with any vegetables - done with tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, onions and carrots. Meat can be replaced with fish (then the dish will turn out to be dietary), just carefully separate the fillet from the bones.
Is the dish suitable for children?
Parents will probably want to know at what age you can cook pea porridge for children, is it dangerous if their son or daughter cooks a dish in kindergarten. You should not give legumes to babies under 1.5 years old, as they are difficult for children to digest. In addition, stimulation of the intestines is not always beneficial for babies, especially if there are problems with digestion.
Keep in mind that many people do not tolerate legumes. For the first time, you need to boil pea porridge in water in the same proportion as usual, but give the baby a couple of spoons to understand the reaction of a small organism. If everything is good, then the volume can be increased. In the kindergarten, you can warn that you have never given a child such a dish - so that the caregivers do not force the baby to eat unfamiliar food.
By the way, if it’s not tasty for a child to eat the usual option, then you can cook pea porridge with meat sauce - it’s checked, children like this option more, and adults eat it with pleasure.
A couple of secrets on how to diversify the dish
Let's share a couple of recipes on how to cook delicious pea porridge simply or in an original way:
- If you need to cook pea porridge quickly, you can use the following trick: add soda to the grains filled with water on the tip of a knife. Let stand 15 minutes, rinse thoroughly. After that, the dish will cook half as much.
- Pea porridge in the oven turns out to be more fragrant and soft, so be sure to try it. It is made by regular recipe(with the same ingredients, in the same ratio), only pea porridge is placed in pots, then baked for 20 minutes at a temperature of 160 degrees.
- Need to know how to cook a dish quickly? Pea porridge in the microwave is your salvation. It is set for half an hour in the appropriate mode for cooking legumes.
- Oversalted? No big deal, it's fixable. You can cook an additional portion without salt, then mix with a salted dish. If there is no time for the procedure, fry more onions and carrots without salt, mix. Onions and carrots will go well with peas, add sweetness to the dish.
So, we have described the tricks that will help you cook pea porridge deliciously. If you like visual step-by-step instructions on what to do, we recommend watching the video.
Pea porridge recipes
how to cook pea porridge
2 hours
90 kcal
5 /5 (2 )
How to choose the right ingredients
- If you don't have much time to soak, split peas are a better choice.
- White peas boil the fastest, so take it.
- When choosing peas, make sure that there is not a lot of excess debris in it and that it does not smell of dampness. If so, then it was stored incorrectly.
Pea porridge with bacon
Kitchen appliances: frying pan, knife, spoon. bowl, saucepan, cutting board.
Ingredients
Cooking process
First step: peas.
Second phase:onion, bacon, vegetable oil.
Third stage:onions, bacon, peas, water, salt, butter.
- Transfer the bacon and onion to a bowl.
and throw in the peas.
- Fill everything with water and salt to taste.
- Cook over medium heat until the peas are cooked and softened.
- Depending on the quality of the peas, you need to cook it from 50 to 120 minutes.
- After turning off the stove, add oil to the porridge and stir.
Video recipe for pea porridge
Watch this video to see how cook pea porridge. Thanks to good shooting, a short recipe and notes in the video, you will know how to quickly cook delicious pea porridge.
Pea porridge with bacon / How to cook pea porridge - video recipe from Delo Vkusa
In this video recipe you will learn how to cook delicious pea porridge.
🍛 In this video, we will consider the option of cooking porridge with bacon to add flavor to the porridge, but you can replace the bacon with other ingredients, or just cook pea porridge.
📘 Ingredients for pea porridge 0:05:
Peas (groats) - 1 tbsp.
Butter - 20 g
Bacon - 50 g
Water - 3 tbsp.
Onion - 1 pc.
Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.
Salt - 0.5 tsp
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What do you eat pea porridge with?
For many, after asking how to cook pea porridge , there is also the question of what to apply it with. And this is purely a matter of taste. I like to serve various smoked meats to it, such as ribs, for example. You can cook ordinary meatballs or fish as a second dish. You can make a vegetable or mushroom dressing, or even just make a fresh one. vegetable salad. Do not interfere with porridge and fresh bread or flatbread.
- In order for pea porridge to cook well, you need to observe the proportions of water and peas: one to three.
- If you are soaking split peas, then 3-4 hours in water is enough for them, and the whole will need all night.
- If you are cooking porridge meat broth, then be careful with salt, because the broth is salty in itself.
Other options
You can make it very simply and quickly and not be afraid that it will burn or cook poorly. Peas can also be boiled delicious soup, and make it a liquid or creamy consistency. If you want to try another healthy porridge, then you can do, which contains a lot of vitamins. It can also be cooked with milk or made sweet. At the same time, it is very tasty and tender and is great for children.
If you know any secrets on how to cook pea porridge deliciously or make it faster, please write about it in the comments so that we can also use your tips.
Quick no-soak pea porridge has been my favorite side dish for years! This dish is suitable for vegetarians, fasting, and indeed everyone!
Peas are a good source of many useful substances and vegetable protein. Purees and cereals from it always turn out to be hearty, fragrant, and, of course, healthy.
Previously, my grandmother in the village often cooked pea porridge in cast iron in the oven, the porridge languished for a long time and turned out surprisingly tasty. I myself didn’t cook pea porridge often, it always seemed to me that this was a very long process - with soaking peas overnight and then long cooking on the stove.
How to cook quick pea porridge without first soaking the peas, my vegetarian friend told me.
We will prepare the products according to the list. We will cook the basic version of pea porridge, without additives. You can cook porridge with fried onions and carrots, or cook porridge in meat broth, or with ribs, all of which you can do after you learn how to cook the basic version of porridge.
Wash the peas first cold water repeatedly. Try to use good quality split peas.
IMPORTANT: And now the FIRST SECRET - pour the washed peas with boiling water and leave the peas in it for 15 minutes.
We drain the water from the peas over time and put the peas in a saucepan with a thick bottom or cauldrons.
IMPORTANT: Secret SECOND - add baking soda to peas.
Pour boiling water over the peas again so that the water is higher than the peas by a finger. We put the peas on a slow fire and cook for 30 minutes, checking if there is water in the pan.
As soon as you see that the water has boiled away, and it will look like this, as in the photo, add more boiling water - the same amount as the first time, so that the water is higher than the peas by a finger.
And now we add salt to taste to the pan with half-cooked peas. Cook the peas for another 20-30 minutes - until fully cooked.
IMPORTANT: if the water has boiled away, and the peas have not yet cooked, add a little boiling water to the porridge until it is ready and becomes the consistency you need.
About the consistency: some prefer porridge with whole pea kernels, some boil it to a puree state.
Pea porridge cooked without soaking is ready for use, remove it from the heat and arrange it on portioned plates. If you season pea porridge with fried onions and carrots, you can serve porridge as a main dish, this is how pea porridge was served in Russia in ancient times.
And you can fill the porridge butter and serve as a side dish to the main course.
Bon Appetit!
Few people know that peas contain a huge amount of trace elements and vitamins. From time immemorial, the attitude towards him in Russia was special. Soups, cereals, pies are traditional dishes on the table. We will tell you how to cook pea porridge, you will also learn what the benefits of pea porridge are, and what substances are present in it that a person needs.
How to cook pea porridge?
Pea porridge contains vitamins, amino acids, various minerals and antioxidants necessary for the health of the body. It contains proteins, mineral salts, natural fiber. Porridge made from peas is very useful. It is nutritious, satisfying and high-calorie, indispensable for people whose credo is an active lifestyle, as well as for those involved in sports. To restore strength and energy calories spent after exercise, it is recommended to use pea porridge. The vegetable protein contained in it helps muscle growth, besides, porridge perfectly complements variety of vegetables and meat. You just need to know how to cook pea porridge.
The benefits of pea porridge
The uniqueness of this dish lies in its healing properties. The use of pea porridge helps to eliminate constipation and poor appetite. It is useful for people who have anemia, pressure drops, anemia. Antioxidants contained in pea porridge are useful for skin diseases. With a constant intake of food, porridge helps maintain the health and youth of the skin. Peas are a satisfying food. To get rid of the feeling of hunger, a person needs a small portion.
How to cook pea porridge
I will reveal to you the secrets of cooking an old healthy dish. We need peas (crushed grains) - 0.5 kg, two small onions and salt. In the absence of crushed peas, whole peas can be used, but it should be cooked longer. It is better to soak it overnight before cooking. We wash and sort the grains. Fall asleep peas in enamel pan and pour cold water so that it covers the grain by 2 cm. Put on the stove and bring to a boil, then reduce, cook over low heat for 1.5 hours, stirring constantly. During the cooking process, water will be absorbed into the peas, so constantly add water to the pan so that it is always 2 cm above the level of the cereal. In this case, the porridge will cook faster, become boiled and without lumps. We salt it at the end of cooking, after which we remove it from the stove. Take the onion, peel, finely chop and fry for vegetable oil until a golden color appears. Add to porridge and mix thoroughly. Knead the porridge with a wooden spoon and serve.
How to cook pea porridge with meat
Prepare the peas in advance (soak overnight). Required: 200 g of peas and 200 g of beef tenderloin, 1 carrot, 1 onion, vegetable oil, spices to taste. We take the meat, cut into small pieces and fry in a deep pan. We put finely chopped carrots and onions, mix and continue to fry for several minutes. After that, add peas and fill with water - as in previous version. Cook the porridge for an hour, not forgetting to stir constantly. At the end of cooking, add salt and pepper. Garnish with parsley or cilantro before serving. delicious porridge obtained from fresh green peas. In this case, the cooking time will be reduced, the peas do not need to be soaked. Fill the peas with water in a ratio of 1: 1 and cook until tender, then add salt and butter.
This cooking option for pea porridge goes well with buckwheat, which allows you to improve the dish and make it more tasty. To do this, add at the end of cooking a little buckwheat and bring the dish to readiness. Serve with fresh vegetables and herbs.
Harm of pea porridge
Pea porridge is useful for people of all ages, from babies to the elderly. But there are contraindications, in the presence of which the use of pea porridge must be reduced. Older people should not include it in their diet too often to avoid digestive problems. Eating porridge can harm people with acute nephritis, exacerbations of diseases of the digestive system, so this dish should be consumed with extreme caution. It is contraindicated for people suffering from excess cholesterol, gout and poor circulation.
