Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, golden split pea soup. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Golden Split Pea Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Golden Split Pea Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first 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:
- Get 2 1/2 cups split peas
- Make ready Water to cover peas after rinsing
- Take 1/2 lb Bacon (about 6 slices)
- Take 4 carrots sliced
- Take 1/2 white onion diced
- Prepare 3 large ribs celery sliced
- Prepare 1 large ham shank or multiple smaller ones which I used here
- Get Fresh ground black pepper
- Make ready 1 tsp dried thyme
- Get 3 garlic cloves sliced
- Make ready 2 cups chicken broth
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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