Pea soup with smoked ribs and chicken

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to cook pea soup with smoked ribs and chicken? Prepare the products. Start with the peas: pick the dry peas, rinse and soak in cold water for 2 hours, if the peas are chopped, if whole — overnight. Before cooking the soup, drain the unabsorbed water, and rinse the peas with running water. Wash and peel the vegetables.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the chicken, cut the ribs along the bones. Put 1/2 onion, 1/4 carrot, 6 peas of black pepper, 1 clove of garlic, stalks of dill and parsley in a broth-net container. Load the meat, ribs, a grid with spices into the pan, fill everything with cold water. If the peas are whole, then put them now. Let the broth boil, remove the foam, reduce the heat to low and leave to cook under the lid for 30-40 minutes. DON'T SALT!

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel and chop the carrots and sausage into strips, onion, garlic, herbs — finely, potatoes — medium cubes.

4. Step 4:

   

   After a while, take out the finished meat and the grid with spices, and load the peas into the boiling broth (if it is chopped). Remove the foam that appears, turn down the heat and cook the soup for about 20-30 minutes until the peas are almost ready. DO NOT SALT, as the peas will cook longer in salted water.

5. Step 5:

   

   Prepare the roast: fry the onion in a frying pan in preheated vegetable oil until transparent.

6. Step 6:

   

   Add to the onion and fry the sausage.

8. Step 7:

   

   Then carrots. Now you can also add tomato or tomato paste (with them, the soup will turn a beautiful orange color).

9. Step 8:

   

   Separate the cooled meat from the skin and bones, cut it arbitrarily (as it will be convenient for you to eat it in the soup).

10. Step 9:

    

    Try peas, if it's almost ready, load the potatoes.

11. Step 10:

    

    Next put the sliced meat, roast and only now add salt (considering that the ribs and sausage are already salty). Cook the soup for about 10 minutes until the potatoes are ready — when pressed with a spoon, it should break easily.

12. Step 11:

    

    3-5 minutes before cooking, try the soup with salt, if necessary, add it. Put bay leaf, garlic passed through a press, fresh or dry herbs to taste in the soup. Turn off the stove and let the soup stand for 10-15 minutes under the closed lid.

13. Step 12:

    

    Serve the soup to the table. Bon appetit!