Recipe: Delicious Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham

Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham.

You can cook Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham

1. You need 1 bag of split dried peas rinsed very well (I do not soak my split peas overnight).
2. Prepare 1-2 of medium to large carrots cleaned and chopped into round nickel size.
3. Prepare 1 stalk of celery cleaned and diced, I do not dice the white or the leaf stalks of the celery. I toss in the diced and the rest using them for flavour.
4. You need of Option: ham (I cubed for her) I prefer no meat, although ham adds flavour.
5. Prepare 2 of medium boxes : I do not measure : I covered the peas with Organic Low Sodium Chicken broth.
6. It's 1 of large sweet onion diced.
7. It's 2 cloves of garlic minced.
8. Prepare of Milk about 1 to 1-1/2 cups.
9. Prepare Dash of nutmeg.
10. It's of Salt and pepper to taste.. I used kosher salt and fresh ground peppet.

Homemade Split Pea Soup with Ham step by step

1. Using a large heavy gage pot. I used about 1/4 cup of olive oil..
2. I allowed the pot get hot, poured out n rinsed split peas with diced carrots, onion, garlic, all of the celery pieces.
3. Sauté until the vegetables are almost tender. Pour in slowly both boxes of low sodium chicken broth. Stir,.
4. Place heat on medium high until it almost boils. Turn heat on low, allow to cook, about 20 minutes.
5. Option: I like mine creamy, I use unsweetened almond milk. My friend brought skim milk..
6. Once the soup is almost finished I like to use an Emersion hand blender to help thicken my soup.
7. Option: I like a teaspoon full of A good plain green yogurt on top.
8. Last but not least Enjoy 😊.