Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, homemade split pea soup with ham. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Place all ingredients in a Dutch oven; bring to a boil. I did simmer my soup on stovetop throughout the day for many hours (definitely stirring occasionaly). My husband stated that this was the ABSOLUTE BEST SPLIT PEA & HAM SOUP I have ever made.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook homemade split pea soup with ham using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham:
- Make ready 1 bag split dried peas rinsed very well (I do not soak my split peas overnight)
- Prepare 1-2 medium to large carrots cleaned and chopped into round nickel size
- Take 1 stalk celery cleaned and diced, I do not dice the white or the leaf stalks of the celery. I toss in the diced and the rest using them for flavour
- Take Option: ham (I cubed for her) I prefer no meat, although ham adds flavour
- Get 2 medium boxes : I do not measure : I covered the peas with Organic Low Sodium Chicken broth
- Prepare 1 large sweet onion diced
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic minced
- Get Milk about 1 to 1-1/2 cups
- Take Dash nutmeg
- Prepare Salt and pepper to taste.. I used kosher salt and fresh ground peppet
Split pea soup is classic comfort food. This version is a basic combination of green split peas, ham, vegetables, and seasonings. This basic pea soup is cooked on the stovetop, but with just a few alterations, it may be cooked in the slow cooker. Drain the peas and set aside.
Steps to make Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham:
- Using a large heavy gage pot. I used about 1/4 cup of olive oil.
- I allowed the pot get hot, poured out n rinsed split peas with diced carrots, onion, garlic, all of the celery pieces
- Sauté until the vegetables are almost tender. Pour in slowly both boxes of low sodium chicken broth. Stir,
- Place heat on medium high until it almost boils. Turn heat on low, allow to cook, about 20 minutes
- Option: I like mine creamy, I use unsweetened almond milk. My friend brought skim milk.
- Once the soup is almost finished I like to use an Emersion hand blender to help thicken my soup
- Option: I like a teaspoon full of A good plain green yogurt on top
- Last but not least Enjoy 😊
Remove the ham bone; when cool enough to handle, remove meat from bone. Discard bone; dice meat and return to soup. Add peas, celery, carrot and onion. Combine water, beer and mustard; pour over vegetables. Stir frequently to keep the solids from burning on the bottom.
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