How to Make Award-winning Split green pea soup

Split green pea soup. This is a hearty split pea soup has a flavorful ham bone cooked with carrots, potatoes, onions, and a pinch of marjoram. I was going to blend the split peas before I added the other stuff, but they lost form and made the soup a lot thicker. I hope I can replicate this soup, it was off the hook!

Green split peas - Green or yellow split peas cook the same. Traditional Lebanese, naturally-vegan green split pea soup with potatoes, cumin and pepper. Full of flavor without any meat!

Hey everyone, I hope you're having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, split green pea soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Split green pea soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it's fast, it tastes delicious. Split green pea soup is something which I've loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

This is a hearty split pea soup has a flavorful ham bone cooked with carrots, potatoes, onions, and a pinch of marjoram. I was going to blend the split peas before I added the other stuff, but they lost form and made the soup a lot thicker. I hope I can replicate this soup, it was off the hook!

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have split green pea soup using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Split green pea soup:

1. {Take 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
2. {Make ready 2 tablespoons of butter.
3. {Prepare 1 of Onion, diced.
4. {Take 3 stalks of celery, diced.
5. {Take 2 of bay leaves.
6. {Get 1/4 tsp of thyme leaves,dried.
7. {Take 3 of carrots, chopped.
8. {Prepare 4-6 cloves of Garlic, presses or finely minced.
9. {Make ready 1/4 tsp of Pepper.
10. {Get 6 cups of chicken or vegetable broth low sodium (add another cup if you want thinner broth).
11. {Make ready 1 lb of Green Split Peas (rinced).
12. {Make ready 1 tsp of liquid smoke optional for vegetarian version.
13. {Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt kosher or 1/4 tsp table salt (add after cooking if needed).
14. {Get of Optional meats you can use: (or combination of them).
15. {Prepare 6 slices of bacon.
16. {Get 2 of small ham hocks.
17. {Prepare 2-3 cups of diced leftover ham (which is all I use).

When I first read through this Lebanese green split pea soup recipe it felt insane. Par-boiling the potatoes and split peas in separate pots only to combine them and cook them. It's soup weather, and split pea soup is one of my personal favorites! To be honest, I've always been on the fence about split pea soup, as it always seemed a bit ho-hum to me, but this recipe changed my opinion.

Steps to make Split green pea soup:

1. Turn the pressure cooker on to the Sauté function. Let it warm up and add the olive oil and butter..
2. Add the onion, celery, bay leaves, and thyme. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion starts to turn translucent.
3. Add the carrots, garlic, (bacon or ham, if using), and pepper and cook for a minute.
4. Add broth, hambone or ham hock, if using, (Add liquid smoke, if using, for vegetarian method). Let come to a simmer..
5. Stir in split peas..
6. Place the lid on the pot and lock it in place. Set the steam release knob to the Sealing position..
7. Cancel the sauté function and Choose Pressure Cook/Manual, and use the + or - or dial to choose 18 minutes. High pressure. It will take a few minutes for the pot to come to pressure..
8. .
9. When the cooking time has finished, let the pot sit undisturbed for 15 minutes to naturally release some of the pressure. Then turn the steam release knob to Venting to quick release the remaining pressure..
10. When the pin in the lid drops down, carefully open the lid, facing away from you. Remove the bay leaves and the bone or ham hocks, if you used them..
11. Taste and add the salt as desired. Serve hot. The soup will thicken quite a bit when it cools, that is normal..
12. This isn’t my recipe I found it online at simply nourishing and tried it out. I liked the fact you do not have to use Ham or a ham hock. I posted it because I use it again and again and tweek it till it tastes the way I like it.😸.

Today's split pea soup recipe is similar in spirit. It's a delicious, healthy, textured soup made from an impossibly short list of ingredients. No ham hocks in this version, simply green split peas and onions cooked until tender, partially pureed, seasoned and flared out with toppings. Pea soup takes time to make, but mostly cooks unattended. You can start it on a weekend when you're around the house, early in the afternoon, and There are many variations on pea soup, so feel free to experiment with what you add to the basic pea and water proportions.

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