Organic Split Yellow Peas (600g)

Organic Split Yellow Peas

This wonderful product is grown and cleaned by Tamarack Farms near Riding Mountain.  Yellow peas are a helpful addition to organic rotations because they pull enough nitrogen from the atmosphere for themselves to grow, and also leave extra nitrogen for crops in the following year!

In the past we have had whole yellow peas available, but the batch of peas that we got this year was particularly small, and we were able to do a better job of cleaning them after splitting them in half.  This allows them to cook much quicker, and makes for wonderfully creamy split pea soups, dahls, and hummus.

We love whole peas in rich wintery soups, or for whipping into a flavourful hummous, and because they’re whole, we also love tossing them into curries and stews, or anything we’d usually use chickpeas for!  Not to say that i’m not still on the look-out for Manitoba grown chickpeas, but they are much more difficult to grow in this part of the world (they like conditions that are a bit hotter and  bit dryer than what we usually experience).  Conventional (non-organic) farmers will usually spray chickpeas with fungicides several times in a growing season, and organic farmers struggle to keep their crop free of disease.  So yellow peas it is!  They do have a stronger flavour (they taste more like fresh peas, whereas chickpeas are more neutral), but they work in all the same ways.

Organic

Gluten Free

600g

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Our favourite yellow pea hummus recipe:

Directions:

Cover 1 cup peas with water and soak overnight, then simmer for 2 hours or until soft.  A pressure cooker or instant pot for 40 minutes will also do the trick.

Blend together:

Cooked yellow peas

1/2 cup lemon juice

1/4 cup tahini

2 tbsp olive or sunflower oil

3 cloves garlic

Dash of salt, pepper & paprika

 

That’s it that’s all!  Enjoy with veggies, crackers, or pita bread.