Food sources high in coumestans include split peas, pinto beans, lima beans, and especially alfalfa and clover sprouts.

Sometimes people add split peas to the filling, but it is only a matter of taste and is therefore optional.

Descendants of the Dutch who originally settled the city continue to simmer chicken along with ham bones and split peas, to make the porridge they call snert.

Add carrots; cover and cook 30 minutes, or until split peas are soft and fully cooked.

The soups vary from split pea to whatever vegetables are at hand (fennel, sweet potato, mushroom, etc.) and portions of those are frozen, too.

There is no set recipe for the channa, which can be just curried or mixed with curry and dhal (split peas, usually the yellow variety).

Add garbanzo beans to a salad, use fat-free refried beans, and/or make split pea or black bean soup.

I, on the other hand, blew one sky high when I tried to cook one of my first college off-campus meals: split peas at full blast.

The culprit was once again split peas.

Soups are justly renowned: split pea, turkey gumbo, mushroom barley and lima bean.