Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade split pea soup with ham. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have homemade split pea soup with ham using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham:
- Take 1 bag split dried peas rinsed very well (I do not soak my split peas overnight)
- Take 1-2 medium to large carrots cleaned and chopped into round nickel size
- Take 1 stalk celery cleaned and diced, I do not dice the white or the leaf stalks of the celery. I toss in the diced and the rest using them for flavour
- Take Option: ham (I cubed for her) I prefer no meat, although ham adds flavour
- Make ready 2 medium boxes : I do not measure : I covered the peas with Organic Low Sodium Chicken broth
- Make ready 1 large sweet onion diced
- Take 2 cloves garlic minced
- Prepare Milk about 1 to 1-1/2 cups
- Get Dash nutmeg
- Take Salt and pepper to taste.. I used kosher salt and fresh ground peppet
Steps to make Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham:
- Using a large heavy gage pot. I used about 1/4 cup of olive oil.
- I allowed the pot get hot, poured out n rinsed split peas with diced carrots, onion, garlic, all of the celery pieces
- Sauté until the vegetables are almost tender. Pour in slowly both boxes of low sodium chicken broth. Stir,
- Place heat on medium high until it almost boils. Turn heat on low, allow to cook, about 20 minutes
- Option: I like mine creamy, I use unsweetened almond milk. My friend brought skim milk.
- Once the soup is almost finished I like to use an Emersion hand blender to help thicken my soup
- Option: I like a teaspoon full of A good plain green yogurt on top
- Last but not least Enjoy 😊
Foods That Make You Happy
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