Recipe: Perfect Split Pea Soup

Split Pea Soup.

You can cook Split Pea Soup using 6 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Split Pea Soup

1. It's 1 of leftover frozen ham bone (any size).
2. Prepare 20 oz of bag dry green split peas.
3. It's 12 cup of water.
4. It's 14 1/2 oz of can sliced carrots (drained).
5. It's 15 oz of can new potatoes (drained).
6. Prepare 1 of salt n pepper to taste.

Split Pea Soup instructions

1. Place water in a large pot..
2. Place frozen ham bone in pot of water..
3. Turn heat on high and boil covered for 2 hours..
4. Remove from heat. And remove ham bone from water. Keeping water in pot..
5. Let ham bone cool until its handleable.. pick all meat and bone marrow off bone and place in pot of water..
6. Chop carrots and potatoes into small cubes..
7. Clean peas by picking out bad peas, stones, sticks etc. Then rinse under cool water..
8. Bring water back to a boil on high heat. Add peas, carrots, potatoes, salt and pepper..
9. Bring to a boil again..
10. Lower heat to medium/ medium low and simmer uncovered..
11. Simmer for 1 1/2 hours. Stirring often and frequent making sure your scraping the bottom..
12. Remove from heat and let stand 10 minutes..
13. Give a quick stir and serve hot!.
14. HINT:.
15. To have a smooth creamy soup.. place soup in blender and puree until smooth..
16. You can also serve this soup chilled..
17. Enjoy!.