Recipe: Yummy Split Pea Soup

Split Pea Soup.

You can have Split Pea Soup using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Split Pea Soup

1. It's 1 lb of dried split peas.
2. Prepare 1 of meaty ham hock with bone.
3. Prepare 2-4 strips of Bacon and bacon grease.
4. Prepare 1 TBS of Chicken drippings or chicken bouillon.
5. You need 1 cup of sliced carrots.
6. You need 3 stalks of chopped celery.
7. It's 1 of medium sweet onion chopped.
8. It's 1/2 cup of cream.
9. Prepare 2 TBS of butter.
10. You need to taste of salt and pepper.
11. It's 8 cups of water.

Split Pea Soup step by step

1. Sort through peas, clean them of any debris..
2. Put peas and ham in large pan cover with 8 cups of water..
3. Add onion.
4. Bring to boil.
5. Turn down to simmer and cover. Simmering for about 1 1/2 hours. Stirring frequently..
6. Remove ham bone cut ham from bone and dice putting both both and meat back into the pot..
7. Fry bacon, add grease to pot put bacon aside to crumble into soup later..
8. Add carrot and celery. Simmer another 30 minutes..
9. Add butter, cream and bacon crumbles. Stirring well add salt and pepper to taste. About 1 to 1 1/2 tsp each. I use less salt and let it be salted to taste by each person. Simmer another half hour stirring frequently and serve..