Trinidad Corn Soup

== Description ==
== Ingredients ==
* 1 lb salted pig tail {substitute with pieces of Ham , Bacon or Kassler ( this is a smoked pok chop without the bone)}
* 2 cans of cream style corn
* about 6 fresh or frozen corn on the cob, cut into 1 inch ( 2.5 cm) pieces
* 1 lb yellow split Peas
* salt, pepper to taste
* a fresh hot Trinidad pepper or pepper sauce as substitute
* chicken stock, either feshly made or made with bouillon cubes
* 2 sweet peppers, cut small
* 3 tomatoes, chopped up
* celery, cut up
* chive, cut up
* Onion, cut up
* garlic cloves, chopped fine
* several leaves chadon bene, cut small( coriander leaves as substitute)
* a little butter, or margarine to sauté vegetables
== Directions ==
# Parboil pigtail for 10 minutes. to get excess salt out (not necessary if using substitutes)
# In a large soup pot ( or pressure cooker), sauté Onion, chive, garlic, celery, sweet peppers and chadon beni for a few minutes
# Add washed splitpeas, cans of cream style corn, corn on the cob, tomatoes, stock, salt, pepper to taste
# Add pigtail or its substitute and boil until corn on the cob is soft and the splitpeas have completely dissolved; this may take several hours, less if you use a pressure cooker
# Make dumplings and add to soup about 20 mins before soup is finished cooking
# When soup is almost finished , float hot pepper on top of soup, or add pepper sauce to taste when soup is finished cooking.
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