How much to cook piti?

Cook piti for 1.5 hours. You must first soak the peas overnight.

How to cook piti

Products in a 5 liter saucepan
Dried peas nohud (large) - 200 grams
Lamb - (brisket, neck, shanks) - 500 grams
Fat tail fat - 70 grams
Potatoes - 3 tubers
Onions - 2 heads
Fresh cherry plum - 100 grams (can be replaced with 50 grams of dried)
Tomatoes - 3 pieces (can be replaced with 2 tablespoons of tomato paste)
Ground ginger - to taste
Pepper to taste
Salt - half a teaspoon

How to cook piti
1. Pour cold water over the peas so that it completely covers them, leave overnight.
2. Wash the lamb in cool running water, cut into cubes 3 centimeters thick.
3. Divide the lamb and soaked peas evenly into the portion pots so that the pots are half full.
4. Pour a glass of boiling water over the meat and peas in each pot.
5. Place the closed pots in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for 40 minutes.
6. Peel the onions, cut into small cubes.
7. Wash the potatoes, peel, cut into 2 cm thick squares.
8. Cut the bacon into cubes 3 centimeters long and 5 millimeters thick.
9. Wash the cherry plum, cut into pieces about 1 centimeter thick.
10. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes for 5 minutes, remove from the boiling water, remove the skin, cut into cubes 2 centimeters thick.
11. Remove the pots from the oven, put chopped onions, potatoes, cherry plums, bacon, tomatoes, a pinch of ginger, pepper, salt in each pot, add half a glass of water if necessary.
12. Put the pots back into the oven for 30 minutes.
Your piti soup is cooked!

Fusofacts

- Piti soup is a popular Azerbaijani dish made from nokhud peas and lamb. The soup is prepared and served in portioned pots.

- If the piti soup is thick, eat it with a fork, if thin, eat it with a spoon.

- In Armenia, piti soup is known as "putuk".

- Regular split peas are not suitable for piti, because it will soften and turn into mush.

November 20, 2015 Last update June 7, 2020Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova

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