Steps to Make Perfect Split Pea Ham Soup

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, split pea ham soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Split Pea Ham Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Split Pea Ham Soup is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Split Pea Ham Soup:

1. Prepare In Dutch Oven
2. Prepare 1 tbsp olive oil
3. Get 1 tbsp butter
4. Make ready 1 cup chopped onion
5. Make ready 1 cup chopped celery
6. Take 1 cup chopped carrots
7. Prepare 2 clove chopped garlic
8. Make ready 2 cup dried green split peas (rinsed and sorted through to insure no little rocks are going in your soup)
9. Make ready 2 1/2 tsp Vegeta (seasoned vegetable salt)
10. Prepare 8 cup chicken broth
11. Prepare 1 dried bayleaf
12. Make ready 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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