Caloric content of pea soup and ways of cooking

People used peas for the first time in places like the Himalayas, China, South America, etc. The famous pea porridge, that is, a cottage cheese, was invented by the French. A rich pea soup in India and Tibet was also considered curative. This dish was necessary for blood cleansing and faster recovery. In our country on the tables a similar dish appeared in the seventeenth century and still remains one of the favorites.

Caloric content of pea soup is usually low, it all depends on the constituent components. It can be soups that are light and rich. If you cook pea soup with vegetables and spices, the calorie content will be about fifty kilocalories. Most food lovers prefer a rich pea soup with smoked products, its calorie content will be higher, but it is very tasty. For this soup you need smoked pork ribs, peas, carrots, bay leaves, onion, garlic, spices. The ribs should be put in cold water and, after the broth boils, add the soaked peas, onion, garlic head, continue cooking for about an hour. Ten minutes before the readiness to add spices. Serve this soup well with croutons, with sour cream, with greens.

Caloric content of pea soup should not frighten people who follow weight. Peas are one of those useful products that are necessary for diseases of the thyroid and heart. Even if you use the same pea soup with smoked products, the calorie content of which is more than three hundred kilocalories, no more than once a week, the body will receive a large number of vitamins, proteins, trace elements.

Many years ago pea soup was considered one of the favorite royal dishes. This soup was served for important guests and on a big holiday. In those days, people were slightly concerned about the calorie content of pea soup. It is tasty, useful - and this is important. On the festive table there was always a clay cup with a favorite soup, yes with greens and sour cream. Any guests feast started with a hot soup and only then began to snack.

Peas - one of the vegetables, which contains a large number of proteins. People who engage in sports should have more such vegetables in their diet. It can be salads with green peas, cream soup of peas, peas garnishes. Also pea soups with vegetables - ideal food for people who keep fasting. Let caloric content of pea soup with vegetables is low, but it has everything you need: proteins, vitamins, trace elements.

There are a lot of recipes for cooking pea soup. In each country there are different ways of using different spices and spices. In most European countries, soup is made from green peas. In Ukraine and Belarus prefer with smoked products, cracklings, croutons, pampushkas. Soups, prepared according to different recipes, have different calorie content. If the soup is made of green young peas and greens, then this dish is completely dietetic, low-calorie. Soup with smoked meats and cracklings has a calorie content much higher.

It was time for dinner, on the table in a plate of soup pea with croutons, greens. Bon Appetit!