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Green Split Pea Soup

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Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup dry green split peas (makes 1 cup cooked)
  • ½ cup pumpkin diced into 1-inch cubes (you can also, instead, use winter, butternut or acorn squash)
  • ½ cup onion finely chopped
  • ½ cup sweet peppers chopped (pimento, red Bell pepper or mini peppers)
  • 4-5 garlic cloves finely chopped (2 tbsp minced)
  • 1 celery stalk finely chopped
  • 1 carrot chopped
  • 1 tbsp parsley chopped
  • 2 large scallions chopped
  • 5 sprigs of thyme
  • 2 culantro (chadon beni) leaves chopped (optional)
  • 1 tsp lime juice, or apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tbsp Soy sauce, or Tamari sauce or Liquid Aminos
  • ¼ tsp salt or to taste
  • ½ tsp black pepper
  • 1 tsp vegetable oil
  • Hot pepper to taste
  • 1 small potato, taro or yam diced to 1-inch cubes (optional)
  • 2 ½ cups of water
  • Dumpling ingredients below (optional)
  • ½ cup flour
  • 1 tbsp warm water
  • ⅛ tsp salt
  • 1 pinch of baking powder
  • ⅛ tsp brown sugar optional

Instructions
 

  • Heat the pot over medium heat.
  • Add the oil. This recipe uses less oil to sauté the seasoning. Therefore, to prevent the seasoning from burning during the sautéing process, keep ½ cup of water on hand and add 1 tbsp of water, at a time, to areas where you see the seasoning may stick.
  • And add onions and ¼ tsp of salt, and gently stir for 2 minutes.
  • Add the sweet peppers and celery and stir gently for 2 minutes.
  • Add the garlic and stir gently for 1 minute.
  • Add the parsley, culantro, half of the pumpkin and half of the carrot, and stir for 1 minute.
  • Add the green split peas, soy sauce, lime juice and 2 ½ cups of water. Bring to a boil, stir, then cover and reduce heat and simmer for 45 minutes or until the split peas are cooked. Check for water level in 20 minutes and stir.
  • While the soup is cooking, make the dumplings: mix all the dry ingredients, then add the water a little at a time. Knead for 5 minutes into a soft, slightly sticky dough, then let rest for 10 minutes or until the soup is ready for the dumplings.
  • Add the remainder of the pumpkin, carrots and simmer for 5 minutes.
  • Separate the dumpling dough into small balls or small long pieces and add to soup, simmer for 10 minutes.