Steps to Make Quick Golden Split Pea Soup

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, golden split pea soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Golden Split Pea Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Golden Split Pea Soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook golden split pea soup using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Golden Split Pea Soup:

1. Take 2 1/2 cups split peas
2. Prepare Water to cover peas after rinsing
3. Get 1/2 lb Bacon (about 6 slices)
4. Take 4 carrots sliced
5. Take 1/2 white onion diced
6. Make ready 3 large ribs celery sliced
7. Take 1 large ham shank or multiple smaller ones which I used here
8. Make ready Fresh ground black pepper
9. Take 1 tsp dried thyme
10. Get 3 garlic cloves sliced
11. Get 2 cups chicken broth

Steps to make Golden Split Pea Soup:

1. Chop and fry bacon until crispy, pour off most bacon fat
2. Deglaze pan using chicken stock
3. Add all chopped veggies herbs and pepper, cook until aromatic
4. Add peas, water and chicken broth, stir.
5. Add ham shank and bring everything to a boil and skim off the foam
6. 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.
7. 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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