- prep: 5 min
- cook: 25 min
- total: 30 min
Summary
A delicious, simple vegetarian split pea soup made from an impossibly short list of ingredients. Seriously, just five!
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 2 large onions, chopped
- 1 teaspoon fine-grain sea salt
- 2 cups dried split green peas, picked over and rinsed
- 5 cups water, plus more to finish
- juice of 1 lemon (reserve the zest)
- To finish: a few pinches of smoked paprika, olive oil, toasted almonds, and/or, scallions
Instructions
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Nutrition
Nutritional Info

- Servings Per Recipe: 6
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 260 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 3 g 4.84%
- Saturated Fat: 0 g 2.19%
- Trans Fat: 0 g %
- Cholesterol: 0 mg 0%
- Sodium: 360 mg 14.98%
- Calcium: 52 mg 5.23%
- Potassium: 569 mg 16.26%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 3 mg 18.31%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 44 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 18 g 73.77%
- Sugar: 6 g
- Protein: 16 g
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Vitamin A 2.12%
- Vitamin C 36.37%
- Vitamin D 0%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Diabetes Exchanges
- Exchange - Fat0
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs0
- Exchange - Starch3
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat1
- Exchange - Alcohol0
MyPlate Info
- MyPlate - Grain Total0 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total0 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total3 oz-eq