How to Prepare Homemade Split Pea Ham Soup

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, split pea ham soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Split Pea Ham Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Split Pea Ham Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. 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. Prepare 1 cup chopped onion
5. Prepare 1 cup chopped celery
6. Take 1 cup chopped carrots
7. Get 2 clove chopped garlic
8. Prepare 2 cup dried green split peas (rinsed and sorted through to insure no little rocks are going in your soup)
9. Take 2 1/2 tsp Vegeta (seasoned vegetable salt)
10. Take 8 cup chicken broth
11. Take 1 dried bayleaf
12. Prepare 1 lb smoked kielbasa, cut into large chunks. so its easy to remove before blending soup. Slice up after cooking

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.

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