Split Pea Soup
A nutritious and warm bowl of filling soup!
Servings: 6
Ingredients
Stove top Directions
- 1 cup Smoked Ham chopped
- 8 cups Water
- 1 Bay Leaf
- 2 teaspoons Chicken or Vegetable Bouillon or just use 4 cups of chicken or vegetable broth and 4 cups of water in place of the 8 cups
- 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
- 3/4 cup Carrots finely diced
- 1 small Onion finely diced
- 1 clove Garlic finely minced
- 16 oz Green Split Peas
- 1/2 teaspoon Kosher Salt
- Several Grinds of Black Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Bring ham, water, bay leaf and bouillon to a low simmer. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Turn off heat. Set aside.
- In a soup pot heat the olive oil until shimmering. Add carrots, onions and garlic. Saute for 5-6 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add broth mixture to the vegetable mixture and add split peas.
- Bring to simmer, cover and cook on medium low for about 1 hour and 15 minutes stirring occasionally. (Add more water if soup gets too thick)
- Add salt and pepper. Stir well to break up most of the remaining split peas.
Instant Pot
- On medium saute mode,heat the olive oil until shimmering. Add carrots, onions and garlic. Saute for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Turn off saute mode'
- Add, ham, water, bay leaf, bouillon and split peas to the IP. Cook on manual pressure for 22 minutes.
- Natural Release cool down for 15 minutes.
- Open lid. Add salt and pepper. Stir well.
Modifications
I chopped the garlic and onion in the food processor but cut the carrots by hand. I think I could have done the carrots in the food processor as well. I wanted tidy little cubes of carrot. However, I’m pretty sure the not so uniform pieces from the food processor would have been fine in soup.
I’ve made this in the Instant Pot before but with the heating up time and the cool down time, it is not much shorter.