Yellow split peas and vegetable puree (Greek Fava)

Friends, I had a long break again in terms of new recipes on the blog, it was the end of the semester and now I started exams at the university and therefore I did not have time, but now I want to tell you two excellent news and I believe that the readers of my blog will be happy. 1) I have fulfilled a long-time dream and have a new, great camera, which will allow me to significantly improve the quality of photos and videos on the blog. 2) From July, I will offer you 2 new video recipes per week, for sure! Each month I will have a certain theme, for example, “Greek cuisine” and the video and text recipes will also be relevant to that theme. I hope that you will like this news and that the number of blog readers will increase.

And now as for today’s recipe, it is very simple, healthy, delicious and, what is quite relevant in this period, fasting.

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Yellow split peas and vegetable puree (Greek Fava)

Total Time 1 hour hour

Servings 10

Ingredients

• 1 cup yellow split peas
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• 1/2 tsp paprika
• 1/2 tsp thyme
• to taste salt & black pepper
• 1 tsp sugar
• lemon
• 2.5 cup water

Instructions 

• First of all, wash the split peas well, clear water should come out. Then pour water so that it is covered by 3-4 cm and let it sit overnight so that it cooks quickly. The next day, drain the water.
• Finely chop the onion and garlic, and cut the grated carrot into cubes.
• Heat the pan, pour oil, add onion and carrot, and saute for 5 minutes, then add garlic, yellow split peas, spices, salt, and black pepper, mix well and leave it for 3-4 minutes. Then add water, and sugar and bring to a boil, when it boils lower the heat and simmer until the peas are well cooked. If the water dries up, add a little.
• Finally, blend, you can add more water to get the desired thickness. Squeeze lemon after serving, you can also drizzle with olive oil.

  Bon Appetit!

Course: Appetizer, vegan

Cuisine: Greek