Split Pea Soup
Split Pea Soup

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Split Pea Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Split Pea Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

This is a hearty split pea soup has a flavorful ham bone cooked with carrots, potatoes, onions, and a pinch of marjoram. This is a wonderful, hearty split pea soup. Great for a fall or blustery winter day.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have split pea soup using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Split Pea Soup:
  1. Get 1 lb dried split peas
  2. Make ready 1 meaty ham hock with bone
  3. Get 2-4 strips Bacon and bacon grease
  4. Make ready 1 TBS Chicken drippings or chicken bouillon
  5. Prepare 1 cup sliced carrots
  6. Take 3 stalks chopped celery
  7. Get 1 medium sweet onion chopped
  8. Prepare 1/2 cup cream
  9. Get 2 TBS butter
  10. Get to taste salt and pepper
  11. Take 8 cups water

Dried split peas are cooked with ham hocks, onions, garlic, and leeks. This filling, hearty soup is perfect for cold winter days. Pea soup takes time to make, but mostly cooks unattended. You can start it on a weekend when you're around the house, early in the afternoon, and make enough for a few days' worth of leftovers.

Steps to make Split Pea Soup:
  1. Sort through peas, clean them of any debris.
  2. Put peas and ham in large pan cover with 8 cups of water.
  3. Add onion
  4. Bring to boil
  5. Turn down to simmer and cover. Simmering for about 1 1/2 hours. Stirring frequently.
  6. Remove ham bone cut ham from bone and dice putting both both and meat back into the pot.
  7. Fry bacon, add grease to pot put bacon aside to crumble into soup later.
  8. Add carrot and celery. Simmer another 30 minutes.
  9. Add butter, cream and bacon crumbles. Stirring well add salt and pepper to taste. About 1 to 1 1/2 tsp each. I use less salt and let it be salted to taste by each person. Simmer another half hour stirring frequently and serve.

Split Pea Soup is the perfect hearty winter soup to serve your family as it is so easy-to-mak and so good! My family considered this soup as an all-time comfort food. It's soup weather, and split pea soup is one of my personal favorites! It's a humble soup, sure, but one that's bursting with flavor, thanks to the smoked ham hock that simmers away with the split peas. Split Pea Soup is one of my favorite comfort meals.

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