Authentic Dutch Oven Pea Soup
A delicious, classic pea soup prepared in a Dutch oven. Made with pure ingredients like pigtail, sauerkraut, and split peas!
Preparation time: 3 hours
For: 6 persons
Ingredients
- 500 g split peas
- 300 g sauerkraut bacon
- 5 pigtails
- 1 smoked sausage
- 2 L water
- 1 leek
- 1 winter carrot
- 2 onions
- 3 potatoes
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 tsp cloves
- Salt & pepper
Preparation method
- Heat the coals in a firestarter and place the Dutch oven above it.
- Heat a little olive oil in the pan.
- Add the pig tails, sauerkraut bacon, and split peas.
- Pour 2 liters of water into the pan and let it simmer for 1.5 hours. Add more coals if necessary to maintain the heat.
- Cut the leek, carrot, onion and potatoes into cubes and add.
- Finely chop the garlic and stir it into the soup.
- Let it steep for another 45 minutes.
- Season with cloves, salt and pepper.
- Remove the bacon from the pan, cut into cubes and add back in.
- Cut the smoked sausage into slices and add.
- Remove the pigtails and discard them.
- Once the smoked sausage is warm, the soup is ready to serve.
Enjoy your meal!
