Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, golden split pea soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A wonderful, simple soup, which can easily be made vegetarian by substituting vegetable broth for the chicken broth. I like to garnish with a dollop of creme fraiche and a sprinkle of chopped chives or parsley. Beer is an excellent accompaniment to this soup.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have golden split pea soup using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Golden Split Pea Soup:
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups split peas
- Prepare Water to cover peas after rinsing
- Get 1/2 lb Bacon (about 6 slices)
- Make ready 4 carrots sliced
- Take 1/2 white onion diced
- Take 3 large ribs celery sliced
- Make ready 1 large ham shank or multiple smaller ones which I used here
- Get Fresh ground black pepper
- Take 1 tsp dried thyme
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves sliced
- Take 2 cups chicken broth
Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well. Bring to a boil and then lower the heat to a simmer. Hearty, protein packed split pea soup made with tender split peas, flavorful ham and fresh vegetables. It's easy to make and perfect for the cold weather.
Instructions to make Golden Split Pea Soup:
- Chop and fry bacon until crispy, pour off most bacon fat
- Deglaze pan using chicken stock
- Add all chopped veggies herbs and pepper, cook until aromatic
- Add peas, water and chicken broth, stir.
- Add ham shank and bring everything to a boil and skim off the foam
- Cover and cook on low at least 3-4 hours until meat falls off the bone removing bones and skin from shank out of soup and the peas are tender. Do not add additional salt during cooking, the bacon and ham shanks with the broth have plenty, just season with black pepper to taste.
- You can adjust thickness of soup by adding water during the cooking process and adjust seasonings to taste, if you want to add more salt I would add it to your bowl instead of the pot, so it's not too salty.
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