Recipe of Quick Split Pea Soup

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, split pea soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Split Pea Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Split Pea Soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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:

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

Steps 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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