{"id":3465,"date":"2011-06-06T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T08:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/zaparents-blog\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2022-08-11T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:00:52","slug":"split-pea-and-bacon-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/lifestyle\/food-recipes\/split-pea-and-bacon-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Split Pea and Bacon or Feta Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderful soup for cold wintry days. For a vegetarian option replace the bacon with feta and the chicken stock with vegetable stock. You can also make this a low fat (almost fat free) by removing the bacon and replacing the butter with a drop of oil. This soup is also great for freezing and keeps for 4 days in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Serves 4<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Preparation Time:\u00a0 <\/strong>10minutes + soaking overnight of peas<br \/>\n<strong>Cooking Time:\u00a0 <\/strong>45minutes<\/p>\n<h2>Ingredients<\/h2>\n<p>10gm butter<br \/>\n2 small onion, peeled and finely diced<br \/>\n4 tbsp Marrow, diced<br \/>\n4 tbsp leeks, finely sliced<br \/>\n4 tbsp spring onion, finely sliced<br \/>\n600ml water<br \/>\n100gm split peas, soaked overnight and rinsed<br \/>\n2 medium potato, peeled and diced<br \/>\nSmall pinch fine black pepper<br \/>\n2 tsp chicken stock<br \/>\n2 tsp maizena mixed with 2tbsp water<br \/>\n200gm streaky bacon, chopped and cooked<\/p>\n<h2>Method<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In a pan melt the butter; add onion, marrow, leeks and spring onion. Cook until soft without browning.<\/li>\n<li>Add water, peas, potato, pepper and stock bring to the boil.<\/li>\n<li>Whisk in the maizena and cook for 30minutes or until the peas are tender.<\/li>\n<li>Stick blend until completely smooth, bring back to boil with the cooked bacon and serve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click here to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/extra-murals\/cooking-and-baking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cooking and baking classes<\/a> for kids, teens and adults in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note: If you enjoyed this article, and would like to stay updated with more, you can:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Subscribe to our free weekly Jozikids\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/member-registration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>newsletter<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0 for parents in Gauteng<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Like us on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jozikids.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Follow us on<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/jozikids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<\/a><\/em><em>Instagram<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderful soup for cold wintry days. For a vegetarian option replace the bacon with feta and the chicken stock with vegetable stock. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":353631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-recipes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}