Easiest Way to Prepare Homemade Split Pea Soup

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, split pea soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have split pea soup using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Split Pea Soup:

1. Take 1 lb dried split peas
2. Take 1 meaty ham hock with bone
3. Make ready 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. Make ready 1 medium sweet onion chopped
8. Get 1/2 cup cream
9. Get 2 TBS butter
10. Prepare to taste salt and pepper
11. Prepare 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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