Recipe: Perfect Split Pea & Ham Soup

Split Pea & Ham Soup.

You can have Split Pea & Ham Soup using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Split Pea & Ham Soup

1. Prepare of dried green split peas.
2. You need of water.
3. You need of olive oil.
4. You need of onion, chopped.
5. It's of carrots, chopped.
6. It's of celery, sliced.
7. Prepare of garlic.
8. It's of ham bone.
9. You need of ham, cubed.
10. It's of water.
11. It's of salt.
12. You need of ground black pepper.

Split Pea & Ham Soup instructions

1. Place split peas and 2 litres water in large saucepan..
2. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat..
3. Reduce heat and simmer 1 hour. Drain..
4. Heat oil in soup pot..
5. Sauté onion, carrots, celery and garlic in oil over medium-low heat until tender - about 10 minutes..
6. Add drained peas, ham bone, cubed ham, 2 litres water, salt and pepper..
7. Cover and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally..
8. Reduce heat and simmer 1 hour..
9. Remove cover and continue simmering until desired thickness (we do between 12 and 24 hours), stirring occasionally..
10. Remove ham bone, cut off any remaining meat..
11. Dice meat and return to soup before serving..