How to Prepare Appetizing Pea Soup

Pea Soup. Split pea soup is the ultimate comfort food. Ladle up a bowl of the good stuff for dinner tonight. Split pea soup has been a favorite winter warm-up for thousands of years.

Taste of Home has the best pea soup recipes from real cooks, featuring reviews, ratings, how-to videos and tips. Add split peas, chicken stock, thyme, bay leaves, and seared ham hock to the pot and bring to a boil. Cover peas with water and soak overnight. You can have Pea Soup using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Pea Soup

1. Prepare 1 lb of Dried Split Peas.
2. It's 2 of quartz water.
3. You need 1.5 lb of ham steak; diced.
4. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
5. It's 1/4 tsp of black pepper.
6. It's 1 Package (2 links) of Eckrich skinless smoked sausage; halved & chopped.
7. You need 2 Stalks of Celery; peeled & chopped.
8. You need 3 of Carrots; peeled & chopped.
9. You need 1/2 bag of golden baby potatoes; quartered.
10. You need 2 of yellow onions; diced.

Drain, rinse and place in a Dutch oven. Add ham bone, water and remaining soup ingredients except sausage and dumplings. Watch how to make this recipe. One of the most traditional ways of making split pea soup is to flavor it with ham bones.

Pea Soup step by step

1. In a large dutch oven add peas and 2qts water.
2. Simmer for 2 min, turn off heat, cover and let soak for 1 hour (or soak peas overnight).
3. Add ham, onion, salt and pepper.
4. Cover, bring to a boil.
5. Reduce to a simmer and simmer covered, gently, for 90 minutes; stir often.
6. Add sausage, celery, carrots, and potatoes.
7. Cover and simmer gently for 30 min, or until potatoes are tender; stir often.

Most recipes include onion, celery, carrots, and potatoes. In the herb department, bay leaves, thyme, mint, marjoram, rosemary, and parsley are all delicious additions. Add crunch to your lunch with Martha Stewart's split pea soup with ham and homemade whole-wheat croutons. Use leftover ham to make split pea soup prep even easier. You'll turn to this split pea soup with ham all winter long.