Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, split pea soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Split Pea Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Split Pea Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
This is a hearty split pea soup has a flavorful ham bone cooked with carrots, potatoes, onions, and a pinch of marjoram. This is a wonderful, hearty split pea soup. Great for a fall or blustery winter day. Dried split peas are cooked with ham hocks, onions, garlic, and leeks.
To get started with this recipe, we must 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:
- Make ready 1 lb dried split peas
- Take 1 meaty ham hock with bone
- Make ready 2-4 strips Bacon and bacon grease
- Make ready 1 TBS Chicken drippings or chicken bouillon
- Make ready 1 cup sliced carrots
- Prepare 3 stalks chopped celery
- Get 1 medium sweet onion chopped
- Prepare 1/2 cup cream
- Take 2 TBS butter
- Prepare to taste salt and pepper
- Make ready 8 cups water
It is, with variations, a part of the cuisine of many cultures. Pea soup takes time to make, but mostly cooks unattended. You can start it on a weekend when you're around the house, early in the afternoon, and make enough for a few days' worth of leftovers. Split Pea Soup is one of my favorite comfort meals.
Instructions to make Split Pea Soup:
- Sort through peas, clean them of any debris.
- Put peas and ham in large pan cover with 8 cups of water.
- Add onion
- Bring to boil
- Turn down to simmer and cover. Simmering for about 1 1/2 hours. Stirring frequently.
- Remove ham bone cut ham from bone and dice putting both both and meat back into the pot.
- Fry bacon, add grease to pot put bacon aside to crumble into soup later.
- Add carrot and celery. Simmer another 30 minutes.
- 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.
You can start it on a weekend when you're around the house, early in the afternoon, and make enough for a few days' worth of leftovers. Split Pea Soup is one of my favorite comfort meals. It's easy, inexpensive, delicious and GOOD FOR YOU! The Wolfe Pit shows you how to make a hearty pot of. It's soup weather, and split pea soup is one of my personal favorites!
Foods That Make Your Mood Better
Most of us have been conditioned to think that comfort foods are bad and are to be avoided. At times, if your comfort food is basically candy or other junk foods, this is true. At times, comfort foods can be utterly nutritious and good for us to eat. Several foods honestly do boost your mood when you eat them. If you are feeling a little bit down and need a happiness pick me up, try some of these.
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As you can see, you don’t need to stuff your face with junk food when you wish to feel better! Try some of these instead!
