Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, split pea soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Split Pea Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Split Pea Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire 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 get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook split pea soup using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Split Pea Soup:
- Take 1 lb dried split peas
- Take 1 meaty ham hock with bone
- Prepare 2-4 strips Bacon and bacon grease
- Prepare 1 TBS Chicken drippings or chicken bouillon
- Take 1 cup sliced carrots
- Prepare 3 stalks chopped celery
- Get 1 medium sweet onion chopped
- Make ready 1/2 cup cream
- Get 2 TBS butter
- Prepare to taste salt and pepper
- Take 8 cups water
It is, with variations, a part of the cuisine of many cultures. It is most often greyish-green or yellow in color depending on the regional variety of peas used; all are cultivars of Pisum sativum. 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.
Instructions to make Split Pea Soup:
- Sort through peas, clean them of any debris.
- Put peas and ham in large pan cover with 8 cups of water.
- Add onion
- Bring to boil
- Turn down to simmer and cover. Simmering for about 1 1/2 hours. Stirring frequently.
- Remove ham bone cut ham from bone and dice putting both both and meat back into the pot.
- Fry bacon, add grease to pot put bacon aside to crumble into soup later.
- Add carrot and celery. Simmer another 30 minutes.
- 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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