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Boiled Yellow Split Peas

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Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. ⅛ teaspoon baking soda, if needed (see tips)
  2. ½ pound (225 grams / 1¼ cups) dry yellow split peas
  3. 3–4 cups (¾–1 liter) potable (drinking) water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Pick over beans, then add hot water.
  2. Boil for two minutes.
  3. Set aside for 1 hour.
  4. Drain and rinse.
  5. Simmer until tender.
  6. Pick over beans, then add cold water.
  7. Soak overnight, or 6 hours minimum.
  8. Drain and rinse.
  9. Simmer until tender.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Colander
Source CC-BY-SA-4.0
Credit

"Boiled Yellow Split Peas" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Boiled_Yellow_Split_Peas, revision 4523920), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Boiled_Yellow_Split_Peas&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Revision 4523920

What was changed: Reformatted by FoodByNation from the wiki page: ingredients and steps extracted, links and templates removed, diet notes detected from the ingredients. This adaptation is also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.