Pea soup with smoked sausage

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to cook pea soup with smoked sausage? Prepare the products. I took green dry peas, but yellow is also suitable, choose only chopped, it cooks faster. Any sausage will do, the main thing is that it is delicious. I chose the hunting one. Pre-rinse the vegetables well under running water.

2. Step 2:

   

   Rinse the peas, pour clean cold water and leave to soak for 8 hours. Then drain the water in which the peas were soaked.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the peas in a soup pot, fill it with 2.5 liters of clean cold water. Add the peeled whole onion. I always cook onions in soup this way, but you can add them chopped. Put the pan on the stove, bring to a boil and cook over low heat, removing the foam, for about 1 hour until the peas are soft. At the end of cooking, remove the onion.

4. Step 4:

   

   Peel the carrots, then grate them on a coarse grater. You can cut it into cubes, it's a matter of taste.

5. Step 5:

   

   Peel the potatoes and cut into medium cubes.

6. Step 6:

   

   Peel the smoked sausages from the film, then cut into medium circles.

8. Step 7:

   

   Fry the sausages in a frying pan until golden brown. If it is greasy, then do not add oil, otherwise splash a drop of vegetable oil.

9. Step 8:

   

   After an hour of cooking peas, add carrots to the soup and cook it, stirring, for 10 minutes.

10. Step 9:

    

    Then put the sliced potatoes in a saucepan. Cook for another 10 minutes.

11. Step 10:

    

    Transfer the fried sausages to the soup.

12. Step 11:

    

    Add bay leaves, salt and pepper. Simmer the soup for another 5-7 minutes.

13. Step 12:

    

    Remove the finished soup from the heat, cover with a lid and let it stand for 10-15 minutes. Then pour it on plates and serve it to the table. Bon appetit!