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Creole Pea Soup

A hearty soup made with split peas, salt beef, ground provisions, and aromatics, simmered until soft.

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Why it works: Celery and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,193 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Creole Pea Soup

Timeabout an hour

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean, wash, and soak peas overnight.

  2. Wash and cut up eschallot, celery, thyme, onion, and meat.

  3. Soak salt meat for ½ hour before cutting up.

  4. Peel and wash provisions. Cut into neat pieces or dice.

Make the soup

  1. Heat oil until smoking, lightly fry the onion and eschallot, and set aside.

  2. Brown any lean meat but not bone or salt beef.

  3. Put water or stock, meat and peas in a covered pot. Bring to the boil.

  4. Skim well and add prepared seasonings.

  5. Reduce heat and simmer until peas are softened and broken down (about an hour). Swizzle if necessary.

  6. Add the provisions to the soup with salt and cook until soft (about 30 minutes).

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

593Calories
32 gProtein
41 gFat
25 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Soupnot in our table0
Meatnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Celery + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,193 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Onion + thymetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Split peas
Break down during simmering to thicken the soup and give it body.
Ground provisions
Soften and absorb the broth, adding starch and body to the soup.
Soup meat
Adds savory flavor to the broth as it simmers.
Salt beef
Contributes salty, savory flavor to the broth.
Oil or margarine
Carries the onion and eschallot flavor and helps them brown lightly.

The step that matters

Simmering the peas until broken down. Peas must simmer long enough to soften and break apart; undercooked peas stay firm and leave the soup thin and grainy. Stirring and keeping a gentle simmer helps them dissolve evenly without scorching on the bottom.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, beef, onion, pepper, celery, thyme):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Black-eyed peafits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, beef, onion, pepper, celery, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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