Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, split pea soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Split Pea Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Split Pea Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular 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:
- Get 1 lb dried split peas
- Get 1 meaty ham hock with bone
- Get 2-4 strips Bacon and bacon grease
- Prepare 1 TBS Chicken drippings or chicken bouillon
- Make ready 1 cup sliced carrots
- Get 3 stalks chopped celery
- Prepare 1 medium sweet onion chopped
- Take 1/2 cup cream
- Take 2 TBS butter
- Prepare to taste salt and pepper
- Prepare 8 cups water
Steps 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.
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