Meat Stock Split Pea Soup With Fried Onion

Ingredients

• 1 cup split peas
• 3 cups water
• meat stock (made from bones and cold meat or fresh meat)
• 1 onion, fried
• minced mint leaves
• toast squares, fried crisp

Method

1. 1 Soak split peas overnight in 3 cups of water.
2. 2 Boil peas until soft, then mash them smoothly.
3. 3 Dilute the mashed peas with meat stock.
4. 4 Fry an onion and add it to the soup.
5. 5 Serve with minced mint leaves and crisp fried toast squares.