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How To Prepare A Traditional Basotho Soup

teacher avatar Gift Letsunyane, Lawyer & Cook

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:27

    • 2.

      Ingredients: Peas

      1:10

    • 3.

      Other Ingredients

      14:08

    • 4.

      Cutting Our Carrots

      2:56

    • 5.

      Prepping Our Ginger

      8:05

    • 6.

      Tomatoes

      0:42

    • 7.

      Check Up On The Bulginess Of Your Peas

      0:46

    • 8.

      Chopping Tomatoes

      1:27

    • 9.

      Chopping Tomatoes The Cubic Way

      4:07

    • 10.

      Chilli

      1:39

    • 11.

      Checking For Water Levels

      0:31

    • 12.

      Adding Olive Oil

      1:02

    • 13.

      Adding Ginger & Chili

      2:33

    • 14.

      Adding Tomatoes

      3:19

    • 15.

      Mushroom Soup

      2:49

    • 16.

      Adding Salt

      1:05

    • 17.

      Checking Readiness Of Our Dish

      1:10

    • 18.

      Dish Served

      0:30

    • 19.

      Noteworthy Tips

      0:32

    • 20.

      Conclusion & Class Project

      0:47

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In this Second Class, Gift teaches us how to prepare a healthy, Basotho Traditional Soup called "Sopho Ea Lierekisi" meaning Pea Soup. 

If you're looking to get a taste of a more fluid African Dish, this is definitely worth your time.

The course is intended for people of all levels, really anyone just looking to get a taste of an African Dish.

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Gift Letsunyane

Lawyer & Cook

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Hello, I am Gift, I am from Maseru - Lesotho. I am a Cook. I love to create foods and experiment with new flavors. I'm constantly learning new ways of developing my cooking. I'm primarily a Lawyer but I love to teach and share all the things I have learned over the past years. 

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1. Introduction: Hi everyone. My name is Nancy and I evenly so true in this course, I'll be teaching you how to cook day, but so true meals. But today because it's called will be cooking split piece. I've been cooking for 23 years. And I'll discuss this meant for everyone that wants to improve their cooking skills are trying new recipes. 2. Ingredients: Peas: This is since I'm cooking split peas today. Firstly, I put it in the pot. So now I'm about to take what? Wailing water to get hot boiling water end point. In this case. I'm doing this so that it, it bows quicker. Because of tight balls. Then I'm going to insert on the stove on. And the temperature of my of my stove is is high. This is so that it comes to boil quicker. 3. Other Ingredients : On young is to add flavor and a different smell to the piece. Most people do not like peas as it is. So to make it tasty, the ED visit tables, so on you're also paying even a different smell to the piece. So I have to know all this vest. So if you have a problem with the smell of onion, you can buy it chop up. Yes, there's this chopper that you just pour it in and then why a blender? Yes. Let me just say a blender for it to chop the unknown for you so that it does not affect your eyes. And yes, ma'am. Peeling the onion. Peeling the onion. We chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop. Sorry about that. So, So now that it is well pill, then I'm going to chop it. I'm going to chop it to 1D, chop it in small sizes. Do this. Make sure you don't cut yourself on this one, just leave it out, will come in chocolate too. One important thing that I did not explain is that you should enclose to type t. You will, your student, the student flows tightly, should open it a little bit so that this step, the water from the piece does not spill out. And then this one also. You must forgive my try hands are touching a lot of water. So my hands are definitely become very dry. And only on will definitely make you cry. So don't be bothered by that. So because our piece is 500 creams piece will only talk one on one, like the one that I'm chopping right now. Okay. After chopping it, but I'm going to do is I'm going to put it in this dish. Because I said we are chopping it so that when it is time to add it to the piece, it is ready. So let I told you in the previous class that you shouldn't use your knife, cutting side of your knife to remove your ingredients from the chopping board. So even now, right now I'm going to use this. I'm going to use this spore so that gradient from the chopping board is dish.price. So if you find any of your when you're not well Chopped, you can take a few of those and then try to chop it again. So after doing this, I'll put it aside. Then now I'm going to chop one big carrot. If I did not have this one big carrot, I was going to chop at least three or two carrots that I'm sorry, because the onions has affected my eyes. So yes, if I was going to chop if the carrots or small v and small carrots in you, in your red, just use two or three carrots. So what I normally do is I'm going to cut the two sides out from the carrot. Then I'm going to use this. I'm not going to put the tilde side of the carrots on the chopping board. I'm just going to use my counter table here. So what you do is you peel it off. She laid off, or if you prefer, you can just watch your Karen. I prefer to peel it off. After peeling. Then I'm going to take my I'm going to take my tablecloth and remove the pills here. Here. Put them aside. Yes. So of your table and cooking becomes messy. It is okay. When cooking your table will definitely be missing. So because it is a big carrot, I normally shop bit like this, make it cut it in small portions so that it becomes easier for me to actually chop it. So what I do is I'll do this. I'll do this because it is big. Just so that I don't hit myself. I'll cut it again and again. Do that again and again. Can see knowing, be careful when doing this not to hurt yourself. So split peas, if you're on a diet, split pea soup is very good. You get the ingredients that you need and also you won't be constipated. So split pea soup is very important when you're on a diet. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use a small knife now. Cut like this. Because I one small portions from the carrot. That's so many. So don't get tired of it. Because also you want some color from your cream, some red, some orange to give a different color from your piece. Some bustle to go like that. To make it appetizing ED visit tables to it. So it's also helped me young children than two do not like anything green color to it. For it to be. Appetizing. This part can be so tiresome. But when you're not used to it, you won't find new tire, some middle. Seen a few minutes. You'll find yourself. If you prefer, you could create created, you can create your carrot. That I have a feeling that it won't look good. Does as if they will look like when you create it. 4. Cutting Our Carrots: Now, I'm just going to also put in a dash C. He used the back of your life. Well, you don't have to add all of these carrots. You could just use this portion, just that I'm going to pull all of this curve because I wanted to pop of orange. I'm inside my soup, so I'm going to add as many insurance on late to carrots hear or see me either really small. So we want this pop of color in Ukraine. Know me and color. We get along. Food look, appetizing this color on it. In it. Yes. So then I'm going to put it aside. Then I'm going to show my ginger. 5. Prepping Our Ginger: This small portion of it, then I will I will peel off the outer layer. There's ginger. You can already smell. I know you guys must think I'm obsessed with ginger. Maybe just a little bit appealing the outer layer. Then we just remove a little bit of dead from here. Then begin chopping it also in small pieces. Because my knife is not strong enough, I'll take the bigger life. They can still do something similar with the carrots. Just going to do this, then I will. Okay. I use the vegan. I sometimes too much ginger destroys the taste of your food. So the portion that I used is a little bit small. So that does not totally takeaway the taste of the soup. Because at the end of the day, we are cooking split pea soup. So you still want to have a little bit of taste of the, the split. So you don't totally kill the taste. This much ginger should be enough. I'm going to pour it. At the same time with the O'Neil. I'll be putting it in this dish because they take a little bit longer for them to be ready. So now I'm going to chop tomatoes and garlic. So I'm just going to take two clubs. Remember it is cold, so it's very important that you have your garlic to strengthen your immune system. So for him to job. So what happens is I'm going to pour in the Gallic laid out when the soup is almost ready to be saved. To chocolate, to some people don't like garlic because it makes them smell. If you don't like it. Don't pour it in your soup. Must also keep on looking into the pot. You see now the piece is becoming biology. So in that case, you can see that it is almost ready for us to add the video tables. Hint will smell garlic. So don't mind that. If you don't like the smell Delic on your hands, just wash your hands after chopping organic. Also, if you have someone that has a tooth ache or has it always seek and not eat solid food. Split pea soup is a very good dish to cook for someone that cannot chew the food. Just to make sure that it is reading small pieces. You can just also worrying over need until the sizes are really small. And she becoming smaller and smaller. I believe it is good now. Just do this. Move it. Then. I'll put it in. Another dish. Going to pour it in at the same time with the tomatoes. Because the tomatoes do not take long for them to be really. You don't want to overcook the galaxy with the last ingredient that we pour in. That's when you will add your dialect. Now I'm going to wash my tomatoes. Going to watch them. 6. Tomatoes: Then then I begin chopping. So what happens is I'm going to take out the portions that Sinbad on the tomato. She would normally don't eat. So cut it out. Cut it out, cut it out. 7. Check Up On The Bulginess Of Your Peas: We're going to get our part. And you can already see that it is becoming bulgy. And you can look at it and see if it is has become soft. Some of the piece is soft, but not all of it is soft. So then you're going to add boiling water is so that you don't raise diet. You're cooking. Because when you pour in cold water, it is as if you're starting you're starting your cooking again. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to boil water in the kettle. Took power in the plot. 8. Chopping Tomatoes: I'm going to chop it. So I then normally do it is split it into half. I'm just going to chop it like a trunk on neon. This is the ingredients that budget to normally use. They don't differ from meals to meals. You just find that in every meal they'll always be some on neon. Those be tomatoes though is be some cream pair part Chile. So I also feel like it saves because This ingredients in normally have in your garden. So you just rotate your meals trickier. To keep the dining room. Interesting. Yeah, that's the word I should use. To feel like you're having something different. Now that I'm going to live this because now the water is boiling. 9. Chopping Tomatoes The Cubic Way: A bit into the pot, then I will stay. So you must be wondering why haven't I add cookie my o, add some salt in it. It says that because of so much water that will be adding for the piece to be ready, it will take away the the ingredients that we are trying to pull in. So you want everything that you pour in your pod to help you to taste. No tomatoes. Careful. Remember to always be careful Entropia ingredients. So you'll also have the red color, although when, when now mixed with the piece that grid color, some web disappears, you'll find that the color that you only still see is the carrots. So the red color, you only see it immediately when you pour it into the pot, but immediately blends with with the piece, the tomato color disappears. Well, should I say it does not become as loud is when you immediately pull it into the pot. Then we are going to pour it into the dish that has garlic. Because remember, I said, we are going to pour the tomato is the last. So it is wise that when chopping a tomato that you don't use a totally flat chopping board because the Jews from the tomato would spill out. So last ingredient that I forgot to tell you guys about is that I'm going to chop it. Chile. Chile is going to help you guys that when it did in the winter, it warms you up a little bit faster. 10. Chilli: When to chop it like this. Like I said, you want to make sure that you wash your hands immediately after chopping it. You want to make it really small portions. You don't prefer Chile in your dish, please don't pull the chimney. Show me. 11. Checking For Water Levels: Okay, Now that we have chopped all our ingredients, we can already see that the piece is almost ready, so we're just going to wait for the water to be a little bit lower than when the water is lower, we are going to add our onion, our ginger, and our Chile. So we're just going to wait just a little while. 12. Adding Olive Oil: So now what I'm going to do is open up. Now we can see the level of the water that is now reduced. We are going to add just a little bit of water. You see, so that when we add the ingredients, the water does not benefiting me. Stay just a little bit just to see the level of your water, right? So you're going to add your cooking oil. So if you're cooking, I am going to pour in one tablespoon. One tablespoon. Then I'll add my onion, ginger. 13. Adding Ginger & Chili: After adding the cooking oil, I'm going to add onion, ginger in Chile. Deployed in the park. I put them first because they take quite a while for them to be to blend well and to cook. So I'll pour it in. Then I will stay. I'll stay. You can see the blending. Then afterwards, what I'm going to add in a cube, a super stoked garlic and herb cube and the green pepper and anionic cubed. So I'm going to pour them in together. Just going to use my hand tool, crush it. Mr. enhance the already existing ingredients, the taste of the already existing ingredients, and the smell. Just do this. Then. You're anthem. Then she knew him. Then stay or pod to mix flavors. Then in about ten minutes, we'll add the carrots to close it. 14. Adding Tomatoes: So now that we have added our own your Nalgene Jia into meter, we have brought them to boil. So now we're going to open up the pot to call the new locks. It should look transparent, sawed off. Then we're going to add our carrots into the pot. Then afterwards we just did a carrot in. Then we close the product gain five or ten minutes, 1015 minutes. Then we'll add the tomato and the Gallic in the mushroom soup. 15. Mushroom Soup: I'm going to do is I'm going to add two tablespoons. Then pouring cold water, he can use tap water. Then. You want to mix well, the green with the water. Add the Sioux, the mushroom soup to add flavor. Also. To make your soup to be really creamy into make sure that all your ingredients blend very well. So when staring it doesn't have to be perfect, but make sure that you crush some of the soup in. Yeah, so we are going to add this to the split. So we probably need now because we wanted to cook very well. Can you see if the soup is not very well? With the split soup that you already have, you might have Iranian stomach. So you want to make sure that your soup is well cooked as well. So that will take around 20 minutes. 20 minutes. Wait for it to see my whale. Then. You see then afterwards, we're just going to let it be full 20 minutes and be done. Then I have to close the poll. 16. Adding Salt: So now that we have let it be spoiled and blended. Well, let me just open it up for you to see the tomato. You can hardly now see it. There's a lot of it here down into the sea. And he does also now creamy. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add salt, just the tip of salt. But now that I know, I'm just going to season it like this. Then no. Staring. And does let it be for 23 minutes. And civic. 17. Checking Readiness Of Our Dish: So now our soup is ready and is ready for us to save it. So I'm just going to turn off the stove. I love. Before that, I'm just going to stay first so that you can see how it actually looks. We can see the green, the red, orange looks beautiful. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn off the stove. Then I'm going to save it. So what I'm going to use a cap. You do this. 18. Dish Served: For us to survey it is you can look at it. You can have it with by and have it with braid. You can have it with what else? Yes, normally hear at home we eat it with baba, operate. 19. Noteworthy Tips: Okay. So like I told you, that when cooking the soup, you have to make sure that you have all your ingredients chopped so that when it is, when it has now began to be soft, you can add them so you chop them in time. But also, remember, you have a choice. If you don't want to add garlic, don't add color to your soup if you don't want to, Chile, don't actually do your soup. Just add the ingredients that you want in your soup for it to be tasty and smell differently from just when it is just. 20. Conclusion & Class Project: So like I told you that when cooking this soup, you have to make sure that you have all your ingredients. Chop saw that when it is, it has now began to be soft. You can add them so you chop them in time. But also, remember, you have a choice. If you don't want to add colleague, Don add color to your soup. If you don't want a chilly, don't actually to use. Just add the ingredients that you want in your soup for it to be tasty and smell differently from just when it is just.