Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, split pea soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Split pea soup has been a favorite winter warm-up for thousands of years. C., Greek farmers cultivated this legume, while Athenian street vendors sold hot pea soup to passersby. When King Louis XIV of France was hungry for pea soup, his court at Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye served up its famous version, Potage Saint.
Split pea soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Split pea soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook split pea soup using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Split pea soup:
- Prepare 500 g split peas, green
- Prepare 4 cups chicken broth
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups water
- Prepare 2 tablespoons butter
- Make ready 2 stalks celery, diced
- Get 2 medium carrots, diced
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic, minced
- Prepare 1 medium onion, diced
- Make ready 500 g ham, diced
- Take 1 Bay leaf
- Take Salt & Pepper, to taste (I use 1 tsp of salt, and 2 tsp pepper)
- Take 1 pinch thyme
Thaw overnight in the refrigerator, or gently warm the frozen soup in a saucepan over low heat on the stove top. This makes a very thick vegetarian split pea soup. To make it thinner, reduce the amount of split peas or add more water. Depending on the density of split peas, it may take a while for the vegetables and peas to soften, but you can't really overcook this soup; just stir occasionally, and add water if it gets too dry.
Steps to make Split pea soup:
- Put split peas in a large pot, along with chicken broth, and water. Bring to a boil, and then remove from heat, cover, and set aside for 1 hour.
- In a large sauce pan, melt butter. Stir in onion, celery, and sliced garlic. Cook slowly until the onions are translucent but not brown, 5 to 8 minutes.
- After peas have sat for an hour, put pot back on burner, and bring back to a boil. Once boiling, lower temperature to a simmer.
- Mix in ham, bay leaf, thyme, salt, pepper, and vegetable mixtute. Stir to combine, and simmer slowly until the peas are tender and the soup is thick, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Stir occasionally.
- If the soup is too thick for your liking, feel free to add more water, slowly.
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