Golden Split Pea Soup
Golden Split Pea Soup

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, golden split pea soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Golden Split Pea Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Golden Split Pea Soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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:
  1. Get 2 1/2 cups split peas
  2. Prepare Water to cover peas after rinsing
  3. Make ready 1/2 lb Bacon (about 6 slices)
  4. Take 4 carrots sliced
  5. Prepare 1/2 white onion diced
  6. Prepare 3 large ribs celery sliced
  7. Make ready 1 large ham shank or multiple smaller ones which I used here
  8. Make ready Fresh ground black pepper
  9. Take 1 tsp dried thyme
  10. Make ready 3 garlic cloves sliced
  11. Get 2 cups chicken broth
Steps 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.

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