Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, bacon split pea soup (instant pot). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bacon split pea soup (instant pot) using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot):
- Prepare 1 pound split peas
- Prepare 7 cups chicken broth
- Get 6-7 rashers bacon
- Take 1 smoked ham hock
- Take 1 large carrot grated
- Get 1 small onion chopped
- Take 1 tspn black pepper
- Prepare 1 dash olive oil
Steps to make Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot):
- Chop onions to desired size, chop bacon to about 1 inch squares, and grate carrot with cheese grater
- Sauté onions with oil in instant pot for about 2 minutes, then toss in bacon 🥓 and cook until it’s the consistency of ham. They need not be crispy but you don’t want them rubbery.
- Turn off the sauté function. Add split peas, chicken broth, ham hock, carrots 🥕, and pepper. Set instant pot to 25 minutes and cook.
- Whisk hot soup before serving to break up clumps of split pea, there should be some stuck to the bottom of the pot, try not to reincorporate this into the soup. I garnished mine with fried rosemary garlic sourdough croutons.
- Complete! Share a cooksnap & tell us what you thought!
- VARIANT: replace the bacon and ham hock with a smoked turkey leg. After soup is cooked, remove turkey leg, pull meat from bone, and return meat to soup.
Foods That Make You Happy
Mostly, people have been trained to think that “comfort” foods are bad for the body and have to be avoided. But if your comfort food is candy or junk food this is true. Soemtimes, comfort foods can be very nutritious and good for us to consume. There are a number of foods that, when you eat them, may boost your mood. When you are feeling a little down and are needing an emotional pick-me-up, try some of these.
Eggs, believe it or not, are great for helping you battle depression. Just make sure that you don’t get rid of the egg yolk. When you want to cheer yourself up, the egg yolk is the most vital part of the egg. Eggs, the egg yolks particularly, are rich in B vitamins. These B vitamins are terrific for helping to elevate your mood. This is because they help your neural transmitters–the parts of your brain that affect your mood–work better. Eat a couple of eggs to feel better!
Put together a trail mix out of seeds and/or nuts. Your mood can be elevated by eating peanuts, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, etc. This is possible because these foods have a bunch of magnesium which promotes serotonin production. Serotonin is a feel-good chemical substance that tells the brain how to feel at any given point in time. The more of this chemical in your brain, the more pleasant you’ll feel. Not only that, nuts, in particular, are a great source of protein.
If you would like to fight depression, try consuming some cold water fish. Salmon, herring, tuna, mackerel, trout, etcetera, they’re all high in omega-3s and DHA. These are two things that actually help the grey matter in your brain work a lot better. It’s true: consuming a tuna fish sandwich can seriously boost your mood.
Some grains are truly wonderful for fighting off bad moods. Quinoa, millet, teff and barley are all really great for helping increase your happiness levels. They help you feel full too which can truly help to make your mood better. It’s not difficult to feel low when you feel famished! These grains can improve your mood as it’s not at all difficult for your body to digest them. They are easier to digest than other foods which helps raise your blood sugar levels and that, in turn, elevates your mood.
Green tea is really excellent for your mood. You just knew it had to be mentioned in this article, right? Green tea is rich in an amino acid referred to as L-theanine. Studies have shown that this amino acid essentially stimulates brain waves. This will better your brain’s focus while at the same calming the rest of your body. You were already aware that green tea could help you be so much healthier. And now you know green tea can help you be happier also!
Now you realize that junk food isn’t necessarily what you need to eat when you are wanting to help your moods get better. Try several of these instead!
