Pea soup or snert: what’s actually the difference?

In the category of ‘life’s big questions’: what’s the difference between pea soup and snert? Or is it the same soup with two names? Our colleagues at Culy conducted an in-depth investigation, and it turns out: two different soups. Whaaat?!?

Apparently, it really is true. Pea soup is a Dutch classic, made with dried split peas, homemade stock, carrot, leek and celeriac. Not difficult, but you need to be patient when making pea soup, because it needs plenty of time to simmer and develop its flavor.

And snert, dear people, is made with bacon, pork chops or a pork knuckle (which you naturally remove before eating) and pieces of pork. All that meat makes the soup much thicker, especially if you leave it overnight – then the spoon will stand upright in your snert.

Cold hands

Once the soup is ready, the smoked sausage can go in. With both pea soup and snert, you traditionally serve it with rye bread topped with bacon. Delicious with your cold hands wrapped around that bowl of soup, sniff sniff, runny nose hovering above it – now that’s true Dutch enjoyment.

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Source: Culy