Yellow Pea Soup - Stove Top - yellow peas

Method

• Soak the peas overnight.
• Follow the directions on the packet, but if there aren't any I tend to put them in a 2.5 litre bowl filled with water.
• Finely chop the carrots and onion.
• Bring all the ingredients to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for about an hour.
• On the stove top this can be a bit tricky, as you want it hot enough that the peas break down, but you don't want it to go dry and start burning to the bottom.
• If there are some peas that haven't broken down it's not a huge problem, the texture just isn't as nice.
• You can whisk it to help things along.
• The soup often tastes better if left to cool for an hour, and then re-heated.
• (But I can never wait and dig right in!
• ).
• After the remaining soup has cooled it can be split into 1 pint portions and frozen in ziplock bags.