pea soup
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Key facts
- Alternative names
- Split pea soup
- Type
- Soup
- Place of origin
- Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome
- Main ingredients
- Dried peas ( split pea )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dish
- Subclass of
- vegetable soup
- Country of origin
- Ancient Greece
- Image
- Erwtensoep roggebrood katenspek.jpg
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- Pea soup
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Encyclopedic overview
Pea soup or split pea soup is soup made typically from dried peas, such as the split pea. It is, with variations, a part of the cuisine of many cultures. It is most often greyish-green or yellow in color depending on the regional variety of peas used; all are cultivars of Pisum sativum.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pea soup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.