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Nan's Nut-Free Recipes

Nan is an excellent cook. She fed her family of four children well. Nan now cooks for her eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. She shares her nut-free recipes with secret ingredients handed down through generations of loving mothers.

Nan's Nut-Free Heart-warming Pea and Ham Soup for June

6/12/2016

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INGREDIENTS
1 cup of dried Red Lentils 
1 cup of Soup Mix (Dried Pearl Barley & Split Peas)
1 Ham or Pork Hock
4 Litres or Quarts of water
1 Turnip or swede (diced)
1 Brown Onion (diced)
1 stalk of Celery (diced)
1 Parsnip (diced)
2 Carrots (diced)
1 1/2 dessertspoons (30g) of Mild Curry Powder
2 teaspoons (10g) of dried Mint Flakes -- Secret Ingredient
2 Vegetable Stock Cubes

METHOD
1. Add red lentils, Soup Mix and half of the water to a large pot with lid which sits on a hot plate on the stove.
2. Leave overnight.
3. Drain water from the pot and put back on the stove.
4. Add the other half of the water to the pot, stir with a wooden spoon and turn the heat on to High.
5. Add diced vegetables and Hock to pot.
6. Add Curry, Mint Flakes and Vegetable Stock to pot and stir well.
7. Replace lid and bring almost to the boil.
8. Simmer on low heat for 2 hours.
9. Turn off heat.
10. Remove Hock bone from pot  and mash vegetables in pot. Make sure Ham pieces are small in size.
11. Sit on stove with no heat for 1 hour.
​12. Serve with fresh bread and butter.
 


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