Thursday 7 July 2022

Pease Pudding Cold

 Split pea purée, fava in Greece, is indeed very similar to the English please pudding. It can be eaten hot but is preferred cold. Around here it's mixed with oodles of olive oil and eaten with raw sliced onion.


I have made a small batch. Ours will be accompanied by a Greek salad and a few fried fish which K picked up from the kaïki on the waterfront this morning.



The split peas are washed before boiling. In years gone by I had to go through them carefully and remove sticks and stones. Now they seem to have perfected their pre-packaging cleaning system 


I boiled them slowly for around 40 minutes with a chopped onion. Then I whizzed them with the stick blender. A little salt and they are ready.


Well, 'almost' ready. First I had to stir in about half a wine glass of olive oil, only the best and freshest, and chop some onion.

In other areas they cooked with or accompanied by capers, caramelised onions, garlic, thyme or lemon juice.  I came across a Morrocan recipe which added paprika and cumin.  Both would go perfectly.  But not in this household.


18 comments:

  1. That sounds very good. Many times I get good ideas here. Thank you.

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  2. As Cro said, it would very nice sometimes instead of humus but it's nice with seafood and salad.

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  3. I heard of fava in Egypt and was thinking something like broad beans....now I am thinking split peas/lentils. I learn so much from your blog posts. Thank you

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    1. Fava in a lot of places is broad beans, but not here. Here broad beans are called koukia.

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  4. Split pea soup here but I must make some more pease pudding.

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    1. My mother often used split peas in soup. Either that or pearly barley

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  5. I am going to try it soon, but I don’t have access to freshly squeezed olive oil. I love the idea of capers….yum!

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    1. As long as it's olive oil you'll be ok 😊☺️

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  6. Yup. I remember it with lots of olive oil
    Not a fan at all

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    1. I often take out mine and make a Dahl. With no oil. Then we are both happy lol

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  7. I will add some Cumin when I make this. I always add some to my Humus as well.

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    1. I think it needs cumin or something spicy.

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  8. You make a puree of peas sound exciting!

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  9. ahh :-) I would have it warm for lunch.
    Many greetings to you.

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    1. Yiasou! Warm the first day but I don't mind it straight from the fridge.

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  10. Traditional is the only way??

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    1. The only way for some people. Tradition is the name of the game in our house.....mainly lol

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