How to Prepare Perfect Split Pea Ham Soup

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, split pea ham soup. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Split Pea Ham Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Split Pea Ham Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook split pea ham soup using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Split Pea Ham Soup:

1. Make ready In Dutch Oven
2. Get 1 tbsp olive oil
3. Prepare 1 tbsp butter
4. Make ready 1 cup chopped onion
5. Prepare 1 cup chopped celery
6. Take 1 cup chopped carrots
7. Get 2 clove chopped garlic
8. Get 2 cup dried green split peas (rinsed and sorted through to insure no little rocks are going in your soup)
9. Prepare 2 1/2 tsp Vegeta (seasoned vegetable salt)
10. Take 8 cup chicken broth
11. Get 1 dried bayleaf
12. Take 1 lb smoked kielbasa, cut into large chunks. so its easy to remove before blending soup. Slice up after cooking

Instructions to make Split Pea Ham Soup:

1. Sautee butter, oil, celery, carrot, onion and garlic over medium heat, until onions are translucent.
2. Add chicken broth, green split peas, bayleaf and vegeta
3. Add smoked kielbasa
4. Bring up to boil, then reduce to a low simmer. Simmer for 1 1/2 hours, covered, stirring occasionally (or until peas are somewhat falling apart and tender)
5. NOW I like my soup a little chunky, but some like it completely blended. I just use my immersion (stick) blender and pulse it a few times, until I reach a desired consistency. You can use a blender too, if you would like. REMOVE BAYLEAF AND MEAT BEFORE BLENDING
6. Slice up kielbasa. Add back to soup. Enjoy!
7. You can substitute smoked ham hock, cubed ham steak, reg sausage…whatever you choose.

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