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I did a few things my old way such as simmered. I hope you enjoy this easy Split Pea Soup with Ham recipe! Thanks for watching and don't forget to like, comment and share.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have homemade split pea soup with ham using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham:
- Make ready 1 bag split dried peas rinsed very well (I do not soak my split peas overnight)
- Prepare 1-2 medium to large carrots cleaned and chopped into round nickel size
- Take 1 stalk celery cleaned and diced, I do not dice the white or the leaf stalks of the celery. I toss in the diced and the rest using them for flavour
- Prepare Option: ham (I cubed for her) I prefer no meat, although ham adds flavour
- Make ready 2 medium boxes : I do not measure : I covered the peas with Organic Low Sodium Chicken broth
- Take 1 large sweet onion diced
- Take 2 cloves garlic minced
- Prepare Milk about 1 to 1-1/2 cups
- Take Dash nutmeg
- Make ready Salt and pepper to taste.. I used kosher salt and fresh ground peppet
Split pea soup is also a pretty darn healthy soup for you, ham bone or not. Those peas are chock full of iron and protein and apparently I hear that vegetables are. When I want Split Pea Soup, this is the recipe I crave! Made with ham hocks or leftover ham, this is so delicious and freezes well.
Instructions to make Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham:
- Using a large heavy gage pot. I used about 1/4 cup of olive oil.
- I allowed the pot get hot, poured out n rinsed split peas with diced carrots, onion, garlic, all of the celery pieces
- Sauté until the vegetables are almost tender. Pour in slowly both boxes of low sodium chicken broth. Stir,
- Place heat on medium high until it almost boils. Turn heat on low, allow to cook, about 20 minutes
- Option: I like mine creamy, I use unsweetened almond milk. My friend brought skim milk.
- Once the soup is almost finished I like to use an Emersion hand blender to help thicken my soup
- Option: I like a teaspoon full of A good plain green yogurt on top
- Last but not least Enjoy 😊
To freeze pea soup, let the soup cool then transfer to freezer safe containers in portions and label the soup with the date and time. I have made similar split pea soup many times and the cover is always clean with condensation only. I use a traditional recipe with salt beef instead of ham with no. How to make split pea soup with a ham bone. If you're planning on having ham this holiday season, do NOT throw out the bone!
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