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Ingredients:
1 lb salted pig tail {substitute with pieces of ham , bacon or Kassler, (this is a smoked pork chop without the bone)}
2 cans of cream style corn
about 6 fresh or frozen corn on the cob, cut into 1 inch ( 2.5 cm) pieces
1 lb yellow split peas
salt, pepper to taste
a fresh hot Trinidad pepper or pepper sauce as substitute
chicken stock, either freshly made or made with bouillon cubes
2 sweet peppers, cut small
3 tomatoes, chopped up
celery, cut up
chive, cut up
onion, cut up
garlic cloves, chopped fine
several leaves chadon bene, cut small (coriander leaves as substitute)
a little butter, or margarine to sauté vegetables
Method:
Parboil pigtail for 10 min. to get excess salt out (not necessary if using substitutes). In a large soup pot
(or pressure cooker), sauté onion, chive, garlic, celery, sweet peppers and chadon beni for a few minutes.
Add washed splitpeas, cans of cream style corn, corn on the cob, tomatoes, stock, salt, pepper to taste.
Add pigtail or its substitute and boil until corn on the cob is soft and the splitpeas have completely dissolved;
this may take several hours, less if you use a pressure cooker. Make dumplings and add to soup about 20 mins
before soup is finished cooking. When soup is almost finished , float hot pepper on top of soup, or add pepper
sauce to taste when soup is finished cooking. note - If you burst the hot pepper in the soup, the soup might
get a very hot taste.
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