Yellow Split Pea Soup With Sweet Potatoes And Kale Food

YELLOW SPLIT-PEA SOUP WITH SWEET POTATOES AND KALE

Steps:

• Spray a large soup pot with cooking spray and heat on medium.
• Saute onions for 5 minutes or until they become translucent.
• Push onions to the side of the pot and add the cumin seeds and mustard seeds to the bottom-center of the pot. Add vegetable oil on top of cumin seeds and mustard seeds and stir lightly. When the mustard seeds begin to pop, stir the onions into the seed mixture.
• Add the ginger and garlic and cook for one more minute.
• Add sweet potatoes, water, split peas, and one tablespoon of curry powder (or garam masala). Stir well.
• Cover the pot and simmer for one hour. Stir regularly to ensure that the split peas don't stick to the pot. Add more water if necessary.
• Stir kale into the soup and cover. Cook for 10 additional minutes on low (or slightly less time if you want the kale to retain any crunch).

SPLIT PEA AND SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Stovetop method: Soak the peas in water to cover overnight. Drain and rinse.
• Bring vegetable broth to a boil in a medium pot. Add soaked peas, sweet potato slices and cardamom pods. Reduce heat to a simmer and cover. Simmer for an hour.
• Heat butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add onions, garam masala, curry powder if using and cumin and cook for 10 minutes, stirring often. When sweet potatoes and peas are tender, add the spiced onions to the pot. Stir and cook 5 minutes more. Remove cardamom pods and season the soup with lemon, cayenne, salt, and pepper to taste. Add a little sugar if desired.
• Slow Cooker method: Place peas, broth, sweet potato and cardamom pods in a slow cooker. Cook on high for 4 to 6 hours or on low for 6 to 8 hours, adding additional broth or water to thicken if needed. When ready to serve, heat butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add onions, garam masala, curry powder if using and cumin and cook 10 minutes, stirring often. Add the spiced onions to the slow cooker. Stir, cover and cook 15 minutes longer on high heat. Remove cardamom pods and season the soup with lemon, cayenne, salt and pepper. If you like add a little sugar to taste.

YELLOW SPLIT-PEA SOUP WITH SWEET POTATOES AND KALE

Steps:

• Spray a large pressure cooker or pot with cooking spray and sauté the onions for about 5 minutes. When they are becoming translucent, push them to one side and pour the cumin and mustard seeds directly onto the bottom of the pot. Pour the canola oil over the seeds and stir them lightly. As soon as the seeds begin to pop, mix them in with the onions. Add the ginger and garlic, and cook for one more minute. Add the sweet potatoes, water, split peas and 1 tablespoon curry powder. Stir well. If using a pressure cooker, seal the cooker and bring it up to high pressure. Cook at high pressure for 8 minutes; then remove from the heat and allow the pressure to come down naturally. If you're cooking it in a regular pot, cover the pot and simmer until the split peas are tender and beginning to break down, about an hour. Stir regularly to make sure that the split peas don't stick to the bottom of the pan, and add water if necessary. While the soup is cooking, wash the kale and remove and discard the tough central rib. Chop the leaves coarsely. When the split peas are cooked, add the kale to the pot, season to taste with salt and additional curry powder, if necessary, and add additional water if the soup is too thick. Cover the pot. For kale that retains some crunch, simply leave the pot covered for 5 or 10 minutes without heating, allowing the kale to cook in the heat of the soup. For kale that is more tender, you may return the pot to low heat for 10 minutes.

SWEET POTATO SPLIT PEA SOUP

Steps:

• In large pot over low heat, add oil, onion, celery, carrot, sweet potatoes, garlic, pepper, oregano, thyme, and paprika, stirring to combine. Cook 5-10 minutes till onions, and celery start to soften.
• Add split peas, stock, water, bouillon, bay leaves, and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 60 minutes.
• At this point you can serve it as is for chunky soup or puree it in batches for a creamer soup.