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Rainy Day Pea-Bean-Barley Soup
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Ingredients:
1 Onion
2 Carrots
1 Stalk Celery
5 Cloves Garlic
2 Tbs. Olive Oil
1 Cup Split Peas, dry
1 Cup Lentil Beans, brown
1/2 Cup Pearl Barley
1 tsp. Thyme Leaf, dry
1 tsp. Oregano Leaf, dry
1 tsp. Rosemary, dry
1/2 tsp. Salt
1/2 tsp. Black Pepper, ground
1/2 tsp. Fennel Seed
1 Cup Frozen Lime Beans
1 Cup Chopped Tomato, canned or fresh
1 Potato, large
6 Cups Water
6 Cups Vegetable Stock
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Wash carrot and celery.
Peel onion and garlic.
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Dice onion, carrot and celery.
Rough chop the garlic.
Add vegetables to a large pot with oil.
Cook ingredients over medium heat for about ten minutes, onion and carrot will soften.
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Measure barley, split peas and lentils.
Place ingredients into a strainer.
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Spray with cold water for a few minutes.
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Measure and place thyme, rosemary, oregano, pepper, fennel, salt and vegetable stock into a pan.
Bring stock to a boil; boil for five minutes.
Remove pan from the stove and let herbs steep in the liquid for ten minutes.
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Measure lime beans.
Dice tomatoes.
Peel and dice potato.
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Place peas, barley and lentils into the pot.
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Add lima bean, tomato and potato to the pot.
Add water to the pot.
Mix ingredients together.
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In this photo you have the soup pot on the right and the herb-vegetable stock on the left.
Turn heat under soup pot to high.
Bring soup to a boil.
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Pour herb-vegetable stock through a strainer into the soup.
Turn heat down to a simmer.
Cover the pot and simmer the soup for one hour.
You need to remove the cover and stir the soup every ten minutes.
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Soup is ready when all ingredients are cooked soft.
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To Finish Soup:
Place strainer over a large bowl.
Add a few cups of soup to the strainer.
Use the back of a large spoon to rub potatoes, beans and peas through the strainer.
No need to turn ingredients into a puree, just press, smash and rub.
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Use the spoon to scrape ingredients out of the strainer.
Place pressed ingredients directly into the bowl with the liquid.
Do not discard the spent ingredients.
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Repeat this process until all ingredients have been pressed in the strainer.
Mix ingredients together taste for salt and pepper.
Reheat soup and serve.
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