How to cook peas?

Peas on the table at all times provides a satisfying and healthy meal.Dishes from this legume are distinguished by variety and excellent taste. It is only important to properly prepare such a product. There are a number of subtleties in this question that should not be deviated.

There are different opinions about whether to soak peas or not. Some argue that it is impossible to do without this, others say that it is not at all necessary to spend time on such preliminary processing. As for the second option, it is advised to wash the peas with running water until they are cleared of all kinds of impurities. If you rely on the traditional approach, then you can make a soak in both cold and hot water.

In the "cold way", peas are poured with liquid in a ratio of one to two. That is, two parts of water are taken on a part of the pea. Using a hot liquid involves a one to four ratio. The process of preparing for cooking can take from five to eight hours. If chipped peas are involved, time is reduced to half an hour.

It should be borne in mind that if you leave the peas in the water for more than eight hours, they will sour, and the taste of the dish will be spoiled.

Cooking time for peas is determined by many factors. It all depends on whether it was soaked or not, fresh or frozen, chilli or sachets.

• Fresh peas do not require much cooking effort. It is still quite soft and does not need pre-treatment. It is enough to put it in hot water and cook for about half an hour.
• After soaking the peas are boiled for about an hour. While waiting for cooking, do not add any ingredients to the pan. This can slow down the digestion of peas.
• For split peas there are no special recommendations on the duration of cooking. Everything will depend on whether it was pre-soaked or whether it is a dry product. It is also important to note the duration of storage of peas. If there are a lot of pea flour admixtures on it, it means that it “lives on light” for a long time - the cooking time may increase.
• Chick peas are boiled in his “clothes” without getting out. Since the pod itself contains a large amount of valuable substances, getting rid of it - make yourself worse. After soaking the pods are placed in boiling water for fifteen minutes. This is enough to peas reached readiness.
• Normal dry peas without soaking before boiling for a very long time. This procedure can take even seven hours. Therefore, if it is necessary, for example, to make thick rich soup, it is better to soak such a product in the evening. Then he will have to keep in the pan no more than one and a half hours.
• Crushed peas in bags is enough to cook for thirty minutes.
• Without defrosting, green frozen peas are put into boiled salted water. When the water boils again, wait another five minutes before turning off the burner.

The ratio of water and pea in the pan depends on what dish you need to cook and what is the state of the product.

• For soup Three liters of liquid are usually taken on a glass of peas. For porridge, the optimum proportion is when one part of the product has three parts of water.
• For hard and dried grains for one glass of product should be taken four glasses of liquid. For soaked peas, only two and a half glasses of water may be sufficient.

You can cook peas in a variety of ways - in a saucepan, multi-cooker, pressure cooker, and even a microwave.

The principle of handling the pan is simple and straightforward. Regardless of which peas are on hand, young green, dry, polished or peeled, it is enough to put them in water in the cooking container and cook for a specified time.

In the pan, you can quickly cook mashed potatoes. This will require:

• pea - two glasses;
• soda - one-fourth teaspoon;
• seasoning to taste.

Grains need to be washed. Take a pot with a thick bottom, put the prepared product into it and pour cold water. It should "rise" a couple of centimeters above the peas. Then in the pot is recommended to add soda.

After boiling, boil an hour. To prevent the peas from burning, it is necessary to stir from time to time and, if necessary, add water to the pan. When the peas are done, add salt and spices. Grind or grind with a blender until a homogeneous mixture is formed. This dish can be served as a garnish for meat instead of the usual mashed potatoes.

You can vary the taste of puree and cook it with melted cheese. Such a dish can be quite independent. To create it you need to take:

• a glass of peas;
• three glasses of water;
• one hundred and fifty grams of melted cheese;
• one carrot;
• one onion;
• salt;
• vegetable oil;
• seasonings.

Rinse peas thoroughly, pour into a container with cold water. Boil for about an hour to the desired result. The process will accelerate if you pour a little oil into the pan.

In the meantime, wash and peel the carrots and onions. Grate both grated and fry in a skillet until golden. When the peas are ready, add the fried vegetables to the pan and add salt. Grate the cheese and pour it in the same place.

Turn the mixture into a homogeneous mass blender. When serving, decorate with parsley leaves.

A regular saucepan is the best for cooking nutritious pea soup with pork. For it you need:

• three liters of water;
• three hundred grams of lean pork;
• a glass of peas;
• several potatoes;
• bow;
• one carrot;
• two cloves of garlic;
• greenery;
• spice;
• sunflower oil;
• salt.

Peas should be filled with water for at least an hour and a half. After washing the meat under running water, cut the meat into small pieces and put it in a saucepan, pour water so that the pieces placed under it disappear. When boils, change the liquid. After some time, add salt. Throw in the meat fat pepper and bay leaf.

Peas how to rinse and soak again. Carrot rubbed straw, chop the onion. Fry these vegetables lightly.

When the meat is cooked, you can send peas into the soup, and after twenty minutes - pre-sliced ​​potatoes and onions with carrots. When the potatoes are cooked, the soup is ready. You can add chopped greens and squeezed garlic. It remains to wait a bit until the soup is saturated with the flavors of the latest additives and you can serve it on the table.

To prepare a dish of peas in a slow cooker, the grains are washed, soaked for three hours. Then fall asleep in the bowl of the wonderful stove and add water. Part of the grains should make up two parts of the liquid. For cooking, usually selected extinguishing mode. The set time is one hour. If the timer is turned off, and the product has not reached the desired state, you need to add another thirty minutes for processing. Salt - at the end of cooking.

If there is no time to soak the peas, it is also possible to cook it in a slow cooker. And if you add vegetables and meat to it, you get a dish, the taste and nutritional value of which will be appreciated by even inveterate gourmets. For cooking you need to take:

• split peas (three dimensional glasses for the multicooker);
• water - six measuring glasses;
• beef ribs - about five;
• one onion;
• one carrot;
• spice.

Wash and peel the carrots. Cut into small cubes. Cut onions in a similar way. Put these products in the multicooker bowl. Rinse peas thoroughly and add to chopped vegetables.

Prepare the ribs - rinse and cut off all that confuses them. Cut into comfortable pieces, send in the total mass. Add water, salt and stir. Then put the slow cooker into the fire for two hours, this time is usually enough for cooking.

When a pressure cooker is used, peeled and washed peas are placed inside, filled with water and processed in a mode suitable for legumes. When the cooking program is completed, you can try what happened and extend the cooking time for a couple, if the peas are still not soft enough.

Excellent soups and peas based on peas are obtained in the microwave. Peas in this case must be soaked before cooking. Two hours are enough for this.

When the grains absorb water and become softer, they need to be poured with hot water and put in an oven in a suitable deep dish. The processing mode should be selected so that the power at which the microwave works is not too large. In the course of cooking, foam is formed on the surface of the water, which must be periodically removed so that you do not have to do a “general cleaning” in the microwave oven.

If porridge is cooked, during the processing of the main product in the microwave, you can peel and chop the vegetables. They can be a great addition to the proven dish. With the addition of greens, onions and carrots, the pea porridge will be much more appetizing and satisfying.

For cooking peas, you can use the oven. It makes great dishes in pots. In this way you can make pea porridge with smoked bacon. To prepare it you need to take:

• grams two hundred bacon;
• thirty grams of butter;
• a glass of peas;
• one onion;
• several leaves of bay leaves;
• salt and pepper.

Soak peas for about forty minutes, and then put it to cook. Meat cut and fry in a skillet with onions. After the peas are cooked, it must be put in a colander and allowed to drain.

Distribute in pots. Add to each serving the meat with onions and spices. Close the pot with lids and put in the oven, preheated to one hundred and eighty degrees. Twenty minutes later, an aromatic, hearty meal can be served.

If you want to make a salad, useful green peas are useful. To start it should be cooked. To do this, you need to take:

• frost peas;
• salt;
• sugar;
• vinegar (apple).

To prepare the peas for salad, you need to pour water into the pot, boil it and put the right amount of beans there. Add salt and sugar to taste. Peas should be boiled for about ten minutes.

After that, add a little apple cider vinegar. Give then another five minutes, then pull out, cool. You can add to the salad.

To cook peas deliciously, you need to take into account a number of nuances.

• Crushed peas are more convenient in cooking than the whole. The taste is the same, and it cooks much faster.
• In the course of cooking, one should not disregard the future dish, it is recommended to stir it from time to time. Thick-walled dishes are better suited for cooking, as the likelihood of sticking of boiled peas decreases.
• With boiling peas, you should always remove the foam. Otherwise, the fluid will "burst out."
• When cooking peas with other ingredients, they can all be thrown into the water at the same time. Mutual penetration of tastes will make the dish more interesting.
• The most suitable spices for peas are coriander, ginger, paprika.
• It is better to add soda soda at the stage of soaking, when it is possible to wash the grain again. Adding soda to the pot during cooking can spoil the taste.
• Instead of soaking, peas can be placed in the pan and heat it for fifteen minutes.So that the grains are not burnt, they must be stirred. During the specified time, the product should become softer.
• If the water boils away during cooking, and the peas have not yet softened, you need to add only hot liquid to the pan. Cold will prevent peas from reaching the desired degree of cooking.

For many, the fundamental question is how useful or harmful such a product is to the figure. Peas are digested in the intestines in an hour and a half. Caloric content of a product depends on its grade.

Cooked pea porridge with no other additives is suitable even for a diet. Such a dish must be cooked for a long time. It will remain nutritious and at the same time not too high in calories, it will be easy to digest and interrupt appetite.

Thanks to this product you can build muscle mass. It contributes to the acceleration of metabolic processes, removes excess fluid from the body, relieves edema and contributes to the improvement of the thyroid gland.

Experts advise to consume per day up to one hundred and eighty grams of legumes, including peas. But we must bear in mind that peas in boiled form leads to an increase in uric acid in the body. It should not be eaten by people suffering from kidney disease (especially if there are stones) and gout. Some problems with the intestines are also a reason to abandon the use of such dishes.

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