Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
£1.79 £1.89
Cooking note: As our current crop of Organic Split Green Peas cook to a firmer finish than most, we're also offering this alternative crop of non-organic Split Green Peas, which cook down to a softer texture. |
Split Green Peas provide a rich colour and flavour to warming and hearty soups or dips.
Split Green Pea Soup with Mint
Green Pea Dhal Bread
Pastizzi
Browse all our recipes for split green peas
Split peas generally don't need soaking and cook to a tender finish, generally retaining a little bite. The texture varies from crop to crop, soaking and cooking in hard water will always result in a longer cooking time and firmer texture.
To cook simply cover the peas with water or stock, bring to the boil then simmer for 30 to 45 minutes. Pre-soaking speeds up cooking but isn't essential. The peas will get softer and softer as they cook.
Cooking times for dried pulses will be longer at higher altitudes and when cooking with hard water or older pulses.
Adding bicarbonate of soda (approx 1tsp per litre water) during soaking and/or cooking will soften the pulses and reduce the cooking time.
Cooked pulses can be used immediately or frozen for later use.
Split Green Peas
No Allergens
Typical values | Per 100g |
Energy | 1159kJ (277kcal) |
Fat | 1.7g |
of which saturates | 0.4g |
Carbohydrate | 26.1g |
of which sugars | 5.7g |
Fibre | 33.1g |
Protein | 22.8g |
Salt | 0g |
Suitable for vegans and vegetarians
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
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Wakelyns organic lentils are back! We're excited to have more superb Coral Lentils, grown and harvested in 2021. If split these would be typical red lentils but these are a traditional French variety best eaten whole. Because they're so limited these lentils are only available in 500g packs. |
Back in the late summer of 2017 we harvested the first commercial crop of British-grown lentils at Wakelyns Agroforestry after several years of trials, an experimental mixture of varieties - a mottled green lentil (the same variety as is grown in Le Puy-en-Velay, in France) and a gun-metal grey lentil (also widely grown in France).
Pioneering Suffolk research farm Wakelyns was established in 1994 by our friend and mentor the late professor Martin Wolfe to test and develop agroforestry approaches that integrate annual crops (like lentils and cereals) with trees and other perennial plants.
Martin aimed to increase diversity in fields and between fields, an approach that increases overall yields and ensures the farm is better able to cope with climatic variability, pest and disease pressures and is less dependent on inputs, like fertiliser, from outside the farm. Read more about Wakelyns...
Explore our wider range of lentils from Wakelyns and our wider network of British farmers. |
Our Wakelyns Lentils have a superb peppery, nutty flavour and firm texture. They're great in soups, stews, curries and salad.
Rinse the lentils in a sieve, check for small stones, and place in a pan with plenty of fresh water water. Bring to the boil, simmer for 15 to 20 minutes until tender.
Don't over-cook - taste the lentils toward the end of the cooking process. To make a salad or a cold lentil dish drench the lentils in cold water immediately after cooking, this will stop them cooking further and ensure they stay nice and firm.
Lentils
May contain wheat grains. Lentils are naturally gluten free, however they are grown and harvested with equipment that also handles cereals containing gluten.
Typical values | Per 100g |
Energy | 1395kJ (325kcal) |
Fat | 1.5g |
of which saturates | 0.2g |
Carbohydrate | 47.6g |
of which sugars | 2.9g |
Fibre | 15.5g |
Protein | 21.8g |
Salt | 0.02g |
Suitable for vegans and vegetarians
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
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Wakelyns organic lentils are back! We're excited to have these very special Black Lentils, grown and harvested in 2021. Like our Coral and Olive Lentils these are a traditional French variety best eaten whole. Because they're so rare these lentils are only available in 300g packs. |
Back in the late summer of 2017 we harvested the first commercial crop of British-grown lentils at Wakelyns Agroforestry after several years of trials, an experimental mixture of varieties - a mottled green lentil (the same variety as is grown in Le Puy-en-Velay, in France) and a gun-metal grey lentil (also widely grown in France).
Pioneering Suffolk research farm Wakelyns was established in 1994 by our friend and mentor the late professor Martin Wolfe to test and develop agroforestry approaches that integrate annual crops (like lentils and cereals) with trees and other perennial plants.
Martin aimed to increase diversity in fields and between fields, an approach that increases overall yields and ensures the farm is better able to cope with climatic variability, pest and disease pressures and is less dependent on inputs, like fertiliser, from outside the farm. Read more about Wakelyns...
Explore our wider range of lentils from Wakelyns and our wider network of British farmers. |
Our Wakelyns Lentils have a superb peppery, nutty flavour and firm texture. They're great in soups, stews, curries and salad.
Rinse the lentils in a sieve, check for small stones, and place in a pan with plenty of fresh water water. Bring to the boil, simmer for 15 to 20 minutes until tender.
Don't over-cook - taste the lentils toward the end of the cooking process. To make a salad or a cold lentil dish drench the lentils in cold water immediately after cooking, this will stop them cooking further and ensure they stay nice and firm.
Lentils
May contain wheat grains. Lentils are naturally gluten free, however they are grown and harvested with equipment that also handles cereals containing gluten.
Typical values | Per 100g |
Energy | 1395kJ (325kcal) |
Fat | 1.5g |
of which saturates | 0.2g |
Carbohydrate | 47.6g |
of which sugars | 2.9g |
Fibre | 15.5g |
Protein | 21.8g |
Salt | 0.02g |
Suitable for vegans and vegetarians
Hodmedod's British Pulses & Grains
£2.49 £3.78
Fava Bean Chips cook just like Split Fava Beans, only a little faster as they're smaller pieces of bean. They cost less (cheap as chips?) than the larger Split Fava Beans but are just as tasty, versatile and easy to cook.
Use our Fava Bean Chips to make dal, falafel or hummus - or add a handful or more to soups, stews or curries. The beans get softer and softer the longer they're cooked.
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£1.99
The flamingo has landed! We're excited to offer pink Flamingo peas from the very first UK harvest. |
These amazing pink Flamingo Peas are a new variety, named by you and first grown at scale in the UK in 2021.
These split peas have the intensely orange-pink cotyledon, that shows as a subtle through the translucent white skin of the whole Flamingo peas.
Split pink peas make superb hummus and can be substituted in recipes for other split peas or chana dal. We look forward to hearing how you've cooked them!
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