Soupe du Laboureur (Ploughman's Pork and Split Pea Soup)

Ingredients

• 300 grammes pork knuckle
• 300 grammes petit salé
• 2 1/2 litres water
• 1 medium carrot
• 1 medium turnip
• 2 whites of leeks
• 1/2 onion
• 1 décilitre split peas

Instructions

1. Put the desalted pork knuckle and the blanched petit salé into a small country marmite with the water.
2. Add the carrot, turnip, leek whites and half-onion, coarsely shredded.
3. Add the split peas.
4. Cook very gently for 3 hours.
5. Serve with small pieces of the boned knuckle and of the petit salé.