makes me think of potato salad.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 2 hrs 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 3 hrs |
| Total Time: | 5 hrs 45 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (14 ounce) bag green split peas, rinsed
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 ½ cups finely chopped onion
- 1 ½ cups finely chopped carrots
- 1 cup finely chopped celery
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic, or to taste
- 7 cups chicken broth, or more as needed, divided
- 1 bay leaf, or more to taste
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon ground thyme
- 2 pounds smoked pork neck bones (such as Smithfield®)
- 10 ounces cubed smoked ham (such as Carolina Pride®)
Instructions
- Place the split peas into a large container and cover with several inches of cool water; let stand for at least 3 hours. Rinse peas until the water runs clear; drain.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Saute onion, carrots, and celery in hot oil until soft, 8 to 12 minutes. Add garlic and saute until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Combine peas, onion mixture, 6 cups chicken broth, bay leaf, black pepper, and thyme together in a large pot. Stir neck bones into chicken broth mixture, adding more chicken broth as necessary to cover bones completely. Bring mixture to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, cover the pot, and simmer until peas have dissolved and meat is falling from the bones, 2 to 3 hours. Transfer bones to a plate to cool.
- Stir cubed ham into soup. When neck bones are cool enough to handle, remove remaining meat from the bones; discard bones and stir meat into soup. Continue to simmer until ham and meat are heated through, about 5 minutes.
- If mixture is too thick add some more chicken stock. If it’s too thin, simmer with cover off until desired consistency is reached.
- Also, if you want the mixture to be smooth: when you remove the neck bones, it is the time to get out the boat motor (or blender) and puree the soup.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 562 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 37 g |
| Cholesterol | 116 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 14 g |
| Protein | 53 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 2089 mg |
| Sugars | 8 g |
| Fat | 22 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Easy and delicious
I used this as a base for the soup. I did not soak the split peas. I halved the ingredients. I used mostly leaks with a little onion, celery, carrots, and 2 small diced potatoes. In addition to the spices listed I used some basil and herbes de provdence splice blend. After simmering awhile i added just a little bit of hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce and a splash of white wine. I simmered and stirred often for a total of 90 minutes. No salt was added since I added about 12 oz of diced smoked ham. Using a wisk to stir during the last half hour broke up the potatoes and thickened the soup to a smooth perfections. Just a splash of half and half at the end finished everything off beautifully. This is as comfort food as it gets. Try it and adjust things as you go. This was really fun to make. Great leftovers for take to work lunch!
Found the recipe AFTER I boiled down the Easter ham bone and removed the meat from the bone. So I used the ham broth created in the cook down, instead of chicken broth. Gave it a little extra ham flavor. Followed the recipe as written after that. Very tasty split pea soup!
Added more pepper, onions and garlic. It was Great!!!!
This is the best basic version of split pea soup to make your own additions from. Try adding some cubed potatoes, or rosemary, or cubed ham, or whatever. Go nuts, it would be hard to screw it up too badly.
Yes, will make again, it was a great soup. I did add finely chopped fresh rosemary to the sauting of the veggies it just added something – something.
Fabulous! I used a ham steak, because that’s what I had on hand and a heaping teaspoon of Better than Stock Ham base. No other changes! Hubby said it was the best tasting ever.
I made this just as is with one exception:I didn’t have any ham sitting around, so I got a pound of thick-sliced smoked ham from the deli, chopped it up, and added it. This came out delicious. I probably could have rinsed the ham, as it’s rather salty, but I like that. I also could have used less ham, as I’m frugal and that ended up being a lot of ham.
Loved it!! Best pea soup ever