Recipe: <!-- -->Split Pea and Sweet Potato Soup<!-- -->

Ingredients

• 1 cup yellow split peas
• 4 cups vegetable broth
• 1 medium sweet potato, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch slices
• 7 whole green cardamom pods
• 1 tablespoon ghee (clarified butter) or canola oil
• 1 medium yellow onion, chopped
• 1 teaspoon garam masala
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
• Lemon juice, to taste
• Cayenne pepper, to taste
• 1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper