Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, golden split pea soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
The active prep time for this Golden Split Pea Soup is about ten minutes. 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.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook golden split pea soup using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Golden Split Pea Soup:
- Get 2 1/2 cups split peas
- Prepare Water to cover peas after rinsing
- Get 1/2 lb Bacon (about 6 slices)
- Make ready 4 carrots sliced
- Take 1/2 white onion diced
- Take 3 large ribs celery sliced
- Take 1 large ham shank or multiple smaller ones which I used here
- Prepare Fresh ground black pepper
- Get 1 tsp dried thyme
- Prepare 3 garlic cloves sliced
- Prepare 2 cups chicken broth
Yellow Split Pea and Potato Soup. Add split peas, chicken stock, thyme, bay leaves, and seared ham hock to the pot and bring to a boil. 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.
Steps to make Golden Split Pea Soup:
- Chop and fry bacon until crispy, pour off most bacon fat
- Deglaze pan using chicken stock
- Add all chopped veggies herbs and pepper, cook until aromatic
- Add peas, water and chicken broth, stir.
- Add ham shank and bring everything to a boil and skim off the foam
- 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.
- 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.
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. Just pick over the dried split peas and discard any grit or discolored peas. Place the split peas in a bowl, and cover them with water.
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