Pea Ham Hock Soup
Pea Ham Hock Soup

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pea ham hock soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pea Ham Hock Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Pea Ham Hock Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pea ham hock soup using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Pea Ham Hock Soup:
  1. Prepare 1 ham hock fat trimmed rindless skin off
  2. Get 2 cups frozen peas
  3. Get 2 medium potatoes,peeled cut in cube
  4. Take 2 big carrots peeled and chopped
  5. Make ready 3 celery stalks chopped
  6. Get 1 onion chopped
  7. Make ready 2 tbs olive oil
  8. Prepare 2 tbsp seasoning powder
  9. Prepare 2 L water
Instructions to make Pea Ham Hock Soup:
  1. Heat oil in a large saucepan. Add onion and celery, cook for 2 minutes. Add carrots, potatoes, frozen peas, ham hock and seasoning powder mixed with 2 litres of water.
  2. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 50-60 minutes until vegetables are cooked and ham hock is very tender. Remove pan from heat. Remove ham hock and allow it to cool
  3. Cut meat from the bone and shred finely.
  4. Blend the soup until smooth with a hand blender.
  5. Bring soup slowly back to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer. Add ham meat.
  6. ~Enjoy~

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