Split Pea Ham Soup
Split Pea Ham Soup

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Split Pea Ham Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Split Pea Ham Soup is something that I have loved my whole life.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook split pea ham soup using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Split Pea Ham Soup:
  1. Make ready In Dutch Oven
  2. Prepare 1 tbsp olive oil
  3. Make ready 1 tbsp butter
  4. Take 1 cup chopped onion
  5. Get 1 cup chopped celery
  6. Make ready 1 cup chopped carrots
  7. Make ready 2 clove chopped garlic
  8. Make ready 2 cup dried green split peas (rinsed and sorted through to insure no little rocks are going in your soup)
  9. Make ready 2 1/2 tsp Vegeta (seasoned vegetable salt)
  10. Take 8 cup chicken broth
  11. Get 1 dried bayleaf
  12. Get 1 lb smoked kielbasa, cut into large chunks. so its easy to remove before blending soup. Slice up after cooking

In a Dutch oven or soup kettle, bring the peas, water and oil to a boil. Add crunch to your lunch with Martha Stewart's split pea soup with ham and homemade whole-wheat croutons. Use leftover ham to make split pea soup prep even easier. You'll turn to this split pea soup with ham all winter long.

Steps to make Split Pea Ham Soup:
  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.

Place all ingredients in a Dutch oven; bring to a boil. Green split peas - no need to soak them first, but make sure you do sift through them and remove any stones, rinse and drain.; Ham hocks - if you've got a leftover meaty ham bone from a spiral ham you served for holiday dinner, this is the perfect home for it! If not, no worries at all. This recipe is written using ham hocks, which are great, too. Split Pea Soup is a tradition in my house whenever there's a ham bone in the fridge, usually when we've made my Mom's Honey Mustard Glazed Ham for Christmas or Easter.

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