Recipe Split Pea Soup

Ingredients :

• 1 lb dried split peas
• 1 meaty ham hock with bone
• 2-4 strips Bacon and bacon grease
• 1 TBS Chicken drippings or chicken bouillon
• 1 cup sliced carrots
• 3 stalks chopped celery
• 1 medium sweet onion chopped
• 1/2 cup cream
• 2 TBS butter
• to taste salt and pepper
• 8 cups water

Method :

1. Sort through peas, clean them of any debris.
2. Put peas and ham in large pan cover with 8 cups of water.
3. Add onion
4. Bring to boil
5. Turn down to simmer and cover. Simmering for about 1 1/2 hours. Stirring frequently.
6. Remove ham bone cut ham from bone and dice putting both both and meat back into the pot.
7. Fry bacon, add grease to pot put bacon aside to crumble into soup later.
8. Add carrot and celery. Simmer another 30 minutes.
9. 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.

Recipe Split Pea Soup 2017-04-02T21:25:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: CakeMaster