Yellow Split Pea with Caramelized Onions

Yellow Split Pea with Caramelized Onions
Fava is delicious legume and tastiest are the fava Santorini. Combined with raw olive oil & raw, chopped onion or fried and caramelized onions with fresh tomatoes or tomatoes rain-fed Santorini. Then we give the title of "married!". Additionally we can enhance the flavor in vinegar with olives, capers, fennel, fennel & lemon.
Usually served as a summer ouzo meze and on your Lenten table.
Try it!
work: 20′ time: 1h:00′ easy:


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Yellow Split Pea with Caramelized Onions Yellow Split Pea with Caramelized Onions

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Ingredients (~2 servings)

  • 250g (8.8 oz) fava
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 onions, medium
  • 1 large tomato
  • 60g (2.1 oz) olive oil
  • salt & pepper
  • olives in vinegar
Put the fava in water to soak for two hours before the boil.
Drain and boil with the bay leaf in enough water to the shrouds. With a slotted spoon remove the foam to be created.
At the same time you clean and cut the onions into rings. Pour into a pan with the olive oil to brown.
Stir regularly until they shine and golden.
Cut the tomato in two and remove those seeds that you can. Cut into strips and pour over onions.
Add salt and pepper and bring to a boil the sauce, reduce the juices and thickens. Served over fava.
Yellow Split Pea with Caramelized Onions Yellow Split Pea with Caramelized Onions Yellow Split Pea with Caramelized Onions
When the beans have cooked through and softened and chylosei, remove the bay leaf and mash, if desired, with the rod mixer.
Serve and accompany, adding over a little of the sauce prepared with a few olives in vinegar.


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