Golden Split Pea Soup
Golden Split Pea Soup

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, golden split pea soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Golden Split Pea Soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Golden Split Pea Soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Here's a lovely golden soup that's very thick and satisfying. Green split peas can be substituted for the yellow, if you prefer, but may need a slightly longer cooking time. A dollop of plain yogurt or sour cream for a garnish provides a tangy contrast to the earthy soup.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have golden split pea soup using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Golden Split Pea Soup:
  1. Make ready 2 1/2 cups split peas
  2. Make ready Water to cover peas after rinsing
  3. Get 1/2 lb Bacon (about 6 slices)
  4. Get 4 carrots sliced
  5. Make ready 1/2 white onion diced
  6. Make ready 3 large ribs celery sliced
  7. Prepare 1 large ham shank or multiple smaller ones which I used here
  8. Make ready Fresh ground black pepper
  9. Prepare 1 tsp dried thyme
  10. Prepare 3 garlic cloves sliced
  11. Take 2 cups chicken broth

Healthy Split Pea Soup with Veggies. Slow-Cooker Ham and Black-Eyed Pea Soup. Split Pea Soup Ingredients: Olive oil - this is used to saute the vegetables, butter can be substituted.; Yellow onion, celery, carrots and garlic - these vegetables built up the background flavors of the soup. They add some nice color too.

Instructions to make Golden Split Pea Soup:
  1. Chop and fry bacon until crispy, pour off most bacon fat
  2. Deglaze pan using chicken stock
  3. Add all chopped veggies herbs and pepper, cook until aromatic
  4. Add peas, water and chicken broth, stir.
  5. Add ham shank and bring everything to a boil and skim off the foam
  6. Cover and cook on low at least 3-4 hours until meat falls off the bone removing bones and skin from shank out of soup and the peas are tender. Do not add additional salt during cooking, the bacon and ham shanks with the broth have plenty, just season with black pepper to taste.
  7. You can adjust thickness of soup by adding water during the cooking process and adjust seasonings to taste, if you want to add more salt I would add it to your bowl instead of the pot, so it's not too salty.

Chicken broth and water - I like to use half chicken broth and half water (vs. all broth) so it doesn't overpower the delicate flavor of the peas. Add split peas, chicken stock, thyme, bay leaves, and seared ham hock to the pot and bring to a boil. Split pea soup has been a favorite winter warm-up for thousands of years. C., Greek farmers cultivated this legume, while Athenian street vendors sold hot pea soup to passersby. When King Louis XIV of France was hungry for pea soup, his court at Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye served up its famous version, Potage Saint.

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