Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Award-winning Split Pea Ham Soup

Split Pea Ham Soup. I did a few things my old way such as. This is a straight-forward version of a classic soup combines dried split peas with onion and ham. Variations include adding carrots, celery, or potatoes.

Once peas are soaked, add ham bone, onion, salt, pepper and marjoram. Homemade Split Pea Soup with Bacon Drain the peas and set aside. You can cook Split Pea Ham Soup using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Split Pea Ham Soup

1. Prepare of In Dutch Oven.
2. Prepare 1 tbsp of olive oil.
3. Prepare 1 tbsp of butter.
4. It's 1 cup of chopped onion.
5. Prepare 1 cup of chopped celery.
6. It's 1 cup of chopped carrots.
7. You need 2 clove of chopped garlic.
8. It's 2 cup of dried green split peas (rinsed and sorted through to insure no little rocks are going in your soup).
9. Prepare 2 1/2 tsp of Vegeta (seasoned vegetable salt).
10. You need 8 cup of chicken broth.
11. Prepare 1 of dried bayleaf.
12. You need 1 lb of smoked kielbasa, cut into large chunks. so its easy to remove before blending soup. Slice up after cooking.

Place in a pot, cover with water and bring to a boil. Use leftover ham to make split pea soup prep even easier. You'll turn to this split pea soup with ham all winter long. Ham bone split pea soup is the pinnacle of split pea soups and it's probably because you don't get it that often.

Split Pea Ham Soup instructions

1. Sautee butter, oil, celery, carrot, onion and garlic over medium heat, until onions are translucent..
2. Add chicken broth, green split peas, bayleaf and vegeta.
3. Add smoked kielbasa.
4. Bring up to boil, then reduce to a low simmer. Simmer for 1 1/2 hours, covered, stirring occasionally (or until peas are somewhat falling apart and tender).
5. NOW I like my soup a little chunky, but some like it completely blended. I just use my immersion (stick) blender and pulse it a few times, until I reach a desired consistency. You can use a blender too, if you would like. REMOVE BAYLEAF AND MEAT BEFORE BLENDING.
6. Slice up kielbasa. Add back to soup. Enjoy!.
7. You can substitute smoked ham hock, cubed ham steak, reg sausage...whatever you choose..

All colour aside, this is one of my Split pea soup just HAS to be made with a ham bone (yes, yes, I know that you can make a vegetarian one, or one without a ham bone but that's not what. Adding a ham bone to split pea soup elevates it to a whole new level. There is a ton of flavor in the bone itself, as well as marrow and gelatin, which I've made split pea soup so many times without success! Homemade split pea soup is one of the homiest one-pot meals out there. Yes, chicken soup is good for the soul, but THIS is good for everything else.