Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, golden split pea soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups split peas
- Prepare Water to cover peas after rinsing
- Prepare 1/2 lb Bacon (about 6 slices)
- Make ready 4 carrots sliced
- Take 1/2 white onion diced
- Take 3 large ribs celery sliced
- Get 1 large ham shank or multiple smaller ones which I used here
- Prepare Fresh ground black pepper
- Make ready 1 tsp dried thyme
- Take 3 garlic cloves sliced
- Take 2 cups chicken broth
Steps 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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