Recipe: Oishi Split Pea Soup For Vegan's Friend

Split Pea Soup.

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

Ingredients of Split Pea Soup

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

Split Pea Soup instructions

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..