Pea Soup. This is a hearty split pea soup has a flavorful ham bone cooked with carrots, potatoes, onions, and a pinch of marjoram. This is a wonderful, hearty split pea soup. Great for a fall or blustery winter day.
Split Pea Soup is the perfect hearty winter soup to serve your family as it is so easy-to-mak and so good!
My family considered this soup as an all-time comfort food.
A simple pea soup makes an elegant start to a spring meal.
You can have Pea Soup using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Pea Soup
- You need 1 lb of Dried Split Peas.
- You need 2 of quartz water.
- Prepare 1.5 lb of ham steak; diced.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of black pepper.
- It's 1 Package (2 links) of Eckrich skinless smoked sausage; halved & chopped.
- It's 2 Stalks of Celery; peeled & chopped.
- You need 3 of Carrots; peeled & chopped.
- Prepare 1/2 bag of golden baby potatoes; quartered.
- It's 2 of yellow onions; diced.
It's also a great way to use frozen vegetables when the produce section is looking bleak. Can you overcook split pea soup? Split peas take a very long time to soften, so you don't have to worry about overcooking them. If you'd like the rest of the vegetables in your soup to retain some bite, add.
Pea Soup step by step
- In a large dutch oven add peas and 2qts water.
- Simmer for 2 min, turn off heat, cover and let soak for 1 hour (or soak peas overnight).
- Add ham, onion, salt and pepper.
- Cover, bring to a boil.
- Reduce to a simmer and simmer covered, gently, for 90 minutes; stir often.
- Add sausage, celery, carrots, and potatoes.
- Cover and simmer gently for 30 min, or until potatoes are tender; stir often.
I had been eating split pea soup for at least half my life before I realized it was not traditionally a A lot of vegetarian split pea soups add potatoes for bulk, but I find it only further mutes a muted soup's. Split pea soup is pure comfort food for many and it's surprisingly easy to make at home. The magic of split pea soup is that the peas are so small that they melt into a thick slurry as they cook. If you can't find smoked ham hocks, use a leftover ham bone or ham steak. If you don't eat pork, you can swap the ham for a smoked turkey leg.
