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Grey peas with speck
Grey peas cooked soft with onion and rendered smoked pork. Latvian winter and Christmas food.
4 servings · 105 minutes (estimated)
Ingredients
Quantities for 4 servings.
- 500 g Grey peas, soaked overnight
- 300 g Smoked pork belly, diced
- 3 piece Onion
- 300 ml Kefir, to serve
- 1 tsp Black pepper
- to taste Salt
Method
- Soak the peas twelve hours in cold water, changing it once.
- Drain, cover with fresh water two fingers above and boil unsalted for an hour and twenty minutes, until soft.
- Dice the pork belly and render it in a dry pan to golden crackling.
- Add the chopped onion and fry it in the rendered fat until soft and golden.
- Drain the peas, leaving a little liquid in the pot, and season with salt and pepper.
- Stir the crackling, onion and fat into the peas and serve hot, with cold kefir in a glass.
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