Golden Split Pea Soup
Golden Split Pea Soup

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Golden Split Pea Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Golden Split Pea Soup is something that I have loved my whole life.

The active prep time for this Golden Split Pea Soup is about ten minutes. Here's a lovely golden soup that's very thick and satisfying. Green split peas can be substituted for the yellow, if you prefer, but may need a slightly longer cooking time. A dollop of plain yogurt or sour cream for a garnish provides a tangy contrast to the earthy soup.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook golden split pea soup using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Golden Split Pea Soup:
  1. Make ready 2 1/2 cups split peas
  2. Make ready Water to cover peas after rinsing
  3. Make ready 1/2 lb Bacon (about 6 slices)
  4. Get 4 carrots sliced
  5. Get 1/2 white onion diced
  6. Make ready 3 large ribs celery sliced
  7. Prepare 1 large ham shank or multiple smaller ones which I used here
  8. Take Fresh ground black pepper
  9. Take 1 tsp dried thyme
  10. Take 3 garlic cloves sliced
  11. Take 2 cups chicken broth

Yellow Split Pea and Potato Soup. Place the split peas in a bowl, and cover them with water. After a minute or two, remove any skins or split peas that float to the top. Finally, rinse the split peas in a colander.

Instructions to make Golden Split Pea Soup:
  1. Chop and fry bacon until crispy, pour off most bacon fat
  2. Deglaze pan using chicken stock
  3. Add all chopped veggies herbs and pepper, cook until aromatic
  4. Add peas, water and chicken broth, stir.
  5. Add ham shank and bring everything to a boil and skim off the foam
  6. Cover and cook on low at least 3-4 hours until meat falls off the bone removing bones and skin from shank out of soup and the peas are tender. Do not add additional salt during cooking, the bacon and ham shanks with the broth have plenty, just season with black pepper to taste.
  7. You can adjust thickness of soup by adding water during the cooking process and adjust seasonings to taste, if you want to add more salt I would add it to your bowl instead of the pot, so it's not too salty.

After a minute or two, remove any skins or split peas that float to the top. Finally, rinse the split peas in a colander. A ham hock or bone pairs perfectly with split peas but so will a smoked turkey leg. Add split peas, chicken stock, thyme, bay leaves, and seared ham hock to the pot and bring to a boil. Try Giada's light and springy version of split pea soup.

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