Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Speedy Split Pea Soup

Split Pea Soup.

Split Pea Soup

Hello everybody, it's Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we're going to prepare a special 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 well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It's appreciated by millions daily. They're nice and they look fantastic. Split Pea Soup is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have split pea soup using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Split Pea Soup:

{Prepare 1 lb of dried split peas.
{Take 1 of meaty ham hock with bone.
{Prepare 2-4 strips of Bacon and bacon grease.
{Make ready 1 TBS of Chicken drippings or chicken bouillon.
{Take 1 cup of sliced carrots.
{Take 3 stalks of chopped celery.
{Get 1 of medium sweet onion chopped.
{Take 1/2 cup of cream.
{Get 2 TBS of butter.
{Get to taste of salt and pepper.
{Get 8 cups of water.

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..

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