Big Slurp Dumpling Soup Recipe
A quick and delicious dumpling soup - tender, translucent pasta pillows, pale green from their pea-stuffed bellies, are buoyed by yellow lentils in a simple clear broth. Golden puddles of olive oil are suspended across the surface, pooling in various cracks and crevices.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 9 of 11 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 9 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Pasta | 1 cup cooked (140g) | 220 |
| Vegetable | 1 tbsp (14g) | 120 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Parmesan Cheese | 1 oz (28g) | 110 |
| Pea | 1/2 cup (72g) | 62 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Dill | 5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried | 4 |
| Chive | 1 tbsp (3g) | 1 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Dumpling | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- a splash of extra virgin olive oil, plus more to finish
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 vegetable bouillon cube, crushed
- 4 cups water
- fine grain sea salt, to taste
- 4 cups cooked yellow split peas*
- 1/4 cup fresh herbs (chives or dill), see headnotes
- 16 dumplings (or stuffed fresh pasta equivalent)
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese