Bacon Ribs and Split Pea Soup

I love pressure cookers. Aside from the scary noise, which one does get used to. Kinda.

This is a pressure cooker recipe.

bacon ribs cut into individual ribs
1 onion very roughly chopped
3 carrots sliced thickly
ground black pepper
yellow split peas

Boil the ribs in the pressure cook with the lid off for ten mins and remove any scum off the top of the water, then pour out about half of the water.
Put the other ingredients in the pan put in enough water to cover the ribs and veg and put lid on. Bring to the boil and when the pressure cooker start hissing quite loudly turn it down to a gentle hiss and time for 15 mins.

You should only use a third full of the cooker of the split peas, or any legumes, and there is also a certain amount of stock/water one should use too. Be careful. Too many carrots makes it too sweet.  Not removing enough of the cooking liquid after the first cooking of the ribs can make it too salty.  Reserve some of the “salty” liquid in case it’s not salty enough….no point adding extra new salt if you already have some in the waste liquid now…..

Ta to my Dad for this.  I had to write it down else I was in danger of ringing him up each time I wanted to cook bacon ribs.