Pea knuckle soup

We put a large saucepan on the stove, into which we put the previously thoroughly washed knuckle. Fill the meat with water. We wash and clean the celery and parsley roots, cut them into several pieces, and send them to the knuckle. Peel the onion and completely lower it into the pan. We wash the peas - a mix of crushed green and yellow, but not fundamentally - you can take one kind. We put it in a saucepan, turn on the stove - the heating is medium.

Bring the liquid to a boil. The foam formed in the process is removed with a spoon. An important caveat is that we do not salt the broth. When you cook peas, you don't need to salt the water. Sometimes peas need to be soaked in advance (a maximum of 5 hours), but chopped peas usually cook quite quickly and well. It is better to use familiar brands or to insure yourself and still pre-soak the peas.

You can also put your favorite spices in the soup, for example, bay leaf, allspice, you can add black pepper peas. In general, the taste of soup is easy to adjust for yourself. However, even without additional spices, the broth will be incredibly rich.

Reduce the heat after boiling and cook the broth for 30 minutes on the slowest fire. We wash and peel carrots and potatoes. Both are cut into small pieces.

When the specified time has passed, we extract the pieces of roots and onion from the soup - we will no longer need them. Remove the knuckle on a wide plate. Put carrots and potatoes in a saucepan, add also a fresh sprig of thyme, a little salt. We continue to cook the soup for another 10-15 minutes - until the peas and vegetables are ready. At this time, we disassemble the meat into fibers with a fork. If desired, you can cut it into neat pieces - it depends on personal preferences.

So. the peas are ready, the carrots and potatoes have become soft, so it's time to remove the soup from the stove. But before that, we extract thyme from the pan, taste the soup, salt, season with ground black pepper. We put the meat back into the pan. Stir, keep on fire for another 30 seconds and remove the soup from the heat.