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thick soup usually made out of dried split peas

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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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.