Recipe of Favorite Split Pea Soup

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, split pea soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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

To get started with this 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 cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Split Pea Soup:

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

Instructions to make Split Pea Soup:

1. Sort through peas, clean them of any debris.
2. Put peas and ham in large pan cover with 8 cups of water.
3. Add onion
4. Bring to boil
5. Turn down to simmer and cover. Simmering for about 1 1/2 hours. Stirring frequently.
6. Remove ham bone cut ham from bone and dice putting both both and meat back into the pot.
7. Fry bacon, add grease to pot put bacon aside to crumble into soup later.
8. Add carrot and celery. Simmer another 30 minutes.
9. 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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