Recipe of Split Pea and Ham Soup in 11 Minutes for Family

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, split pea and ham soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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I did a few things my old way such as simmered my ham. Use leftover ham to make split pea soup prep even easier. You'll turn to this split pea soup with ham all winter long.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have split pea and ham soup using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Split Pea and Ham Soup:

1. Make ready 1 1/2 lb dried split peas divided
2. Take 10 1/2 cup water divided
3. Make ready 3 chicken bouillon cubes for 6 cups of water
4. Prepare 2 lb ham on bone
5. Get 4 clove garlic, minced
6. Take 2 carrots, sliced
7. Prepare 2 celery stalks including leaves, sliced
8. Prepare 1/2 onion, chopped
9. Make ready 3 red potatoes, cubed
10. Make ready 1 Bay leaf
11. Prepare 2 pinch white pepper
12. Take 1 pinch Cheyenne pepper
13. Get fresh ground black pepper
14. Make ready chopped cooked bacon *optional

When I want Split Pea Soup, this is the recipe I crave! Made with ham hocks or leftover ham, this is so delicious and freezes well if you want to make freezer meals. Drain the peas and set aside. Place in a pot, cover with water and bring to a boil.

Instructions to make Split Pea and Ham Soup:

1. Sort then rinse peas. In a large pot, combine 1lb peas, 8 cups of hot water, chicken bouillon and ham, then bring to a boil over high heat. Cover the pot and reduce heat to low. Cook for 30 min stirring occasionally.
2. While that's cooking chop all vegetables. After first half hour add the vegetables and seasonings for 30 more minutes or until desired tenderness is reached. In second pot add 2 1/2 cups of water and 1/2 lb of peas on medium heat for 30 min.
3. Once desired tenderness is reached remove the ham and trim the meat off the bone and discard along with excess fat. Chop meat and add back to soup along with extra peas and water. Mix well and serve.

Adding a ham bone to split pea soup elevates it to a whole new level. There is a ton of flavor in the bone itself, as well as marrow and gelatin, which infuses into the soup as it cooks (which both thickens it and gives it many of the same health benefits as bone broth). And there's also still likely a lot of. Split pea soup is a classic comfort food that's incredibley easy to make. It's the perfect recipe to make using leftover holiday ham.

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