{"id":14682,"date":"2020-09-04T13:31:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/?p=14682"},"modified":"2020-09-10T22:37:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:37:42","slug":"split-pea-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/2020\/09\/04\/split-pea-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy split pea soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>Yoga Kitchen \u2013 Simple, healthy and vegan<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Anyone on a purely vegan diet would do well to keep a close eye on the proportion of protein. <strong>Peas and split peas<\/strong> are an excellent and <strong>very cheap<\/strong> source of high-quality plant protein with a rich and varied amino acid spectrum. They also contain a lot of complex carbohydrates and a good deal of valuable fibre.<br \/>\nDream food, really!<br \/>\nWhat could be cozier and heartier than a good bowl of steaming hot <strong>pea soup<\/strong> in the cold season? And you can do that right from breakfast!<\/p>\n<h4>What you need for about 1 litre of freshly made soup:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>150 gr split peas<\/li>\n<li>1 carrot<\/li>\n<li>1 onion<\/li>\n<li>eventually a piece of green celery<\/li>\n<li>one to one and a half tablespoons of good olive oil<\/li>\n<li>Herbs such as: cumin seed, savory, fennel seed &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>pepper and salt to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also add vegetable stock cubes to give extra flavour to the soup, but I&#8217;m not a fan of that myself.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/2020PeasoupWeb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/2020PeasoupWeb.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of split pea soup with its ingredients\" width=\"1200\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/2020PeasoupWeb.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/2020PeasoupWeb-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/2020PeasoupWeb-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/2020PeasoupWeb-1024x384.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Step by step<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow the split peas to soak in water for a few hours until they are swollen<\/li>\n<li>Rinse them in a sieve under running water<\/li>\n<li>Gently heat the olive oil on low fire, sprinkle in the herbs (cumin seed, savory, fennel, or others, according to personal taste &#8230;) and let them fry softly in the oil for a few moments allow them to release their flavour<\/li>\n<li>Add the finely chopped onion and carrot and fry until they become a little glassy<\/li>\n<li>Pour in the split peas, stir and briefly fry<\/li>\n<li>Pour 1 litre of water over the vegetables, bring to the boil<\/li>\n<li>The cooking time depends on the type of pan: approx. 35 minutes in an ordinary pan. If you use a pressure cooker, reduce the cooking time to about 15 to 20 minutes.\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Extremely important<\/h4>\n<p>When cooking legumes, <strong>add the salt only after the cooking process.<\/strong><br \/>\nThis applies to sea salt, salted soy sauce as well as any salty stock cubes or stock in powder.<br \/>\nFinally, you might add some extra pepper to taste and finely mix the soup with a handheld mixer or in a blender.<br \/>\nServe nice and hot!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this delicious, simple, fortifying soup with its respectable protein content!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/Spliterwten_EN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/Spliterwten_EN.jpg\" alt=\"Nutritional values split peas\" width=\"1598\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/Spliterwten_EN.jpg 1598w, https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/Spliterwten_EN-300x33.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/Spliterwten_EN-768x85.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/Spliterwten_EN-1024x113.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1598px) 100vw, 1598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"yk-hoebetalen\">\n<h4>When is the best moment to eat protein? <\/h4>\n<p>Opinions differ.<br \/>\nSome people claim that you benefit more from protein in the morning and at noon than in the evening. They claim it would be best to go to bed &#8220;light&#8221; with a digestive system that has finished its day job so that all the energy can be put into recuperation at night.<br \/>\nOn the other hand, the night is precisely the time when protein synthesis and muscle recovery and building also take place. So according to other authors, it is a good idea to include protein in your last meal so that it enters the bloodstream at night and is available for protein synthesis.<br \/>\nThat seems to make good sense.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoga Kitchen \u2013 Simple, healthy and vegan Anyone on a purely vegan diet would do well to keep a close eye on the proportion of protein. Peas and split peas are an excellent and very cheap source of high-quality plant protein with a rich and varied amino acid spectrum. They also contain a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/2020\/09\/04\/split-pea-soup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Easy split pea soup<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[79,67,43,26],"class_list":["post-14682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition","category-recipes","tag-legumes","tag-protein","tag-soup","tag-vegan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14682"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14696,"href":"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682\/revisions\/14696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogakitchen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}