Norwegian Ertesuppe (Yellow Pea Soup)

Pea soup is a soup cooked  with dried yellow peas that have been soaked overnight and lightly salted or smoked pork (ham, cured meat and sausages ). At the end of cooking process, we can add onion, leek, carrot and potato or other vegetables. The soup is  flavored with pepper and  thyme.


Ingredients:

1 kg lightly salted pork leg,soaked overnight  ( you can also use fresh pork leg)
200 grams of dried yellow peas (soaked overnight with salt)
3 carrots
1 stalk  of leek,chopped
1 onion,cubed
pepper

 Salted pork leg soaked in water overnight to lessen the salty taste.

Dried yellow pea soaked in the water overnight.

                                       


Carrot,onion,leek and pepper.



Procedure:

Cook salted pork leg and the yellow peas for 2 hrs.

Add carrots,onion,leek and dashes of pepper. Let it simmer for 10 minutes.

Serve with boiled potatoes:)