Ingredient: Split peas
Category: Vegetables
Season: All
Split peas are the dried, peeled and split seeds of Pisum sativum.
They come in yellow and green varieties .
They have been mechanically split , so that they will cook faster.
The green ones are superior in flavour, but both are suitable for thick, warming pea soups, or for purées or cutlets.
Yellow split peas are sometimes wrongly referred to as a synonym for the Indian toor dal (split pigeon peas) or chana dal (split yellow gram, chickpeas or garbanzo beans); while all commonly known as peas the latter are from other legume species
see also Pulses |