There are many recipes for split pea and ham soups within sight, and this is my mudder. Stage in the middle of kill time, these kinds of soups are the best charactery because warming body and soul. This one goes authoritative a bit expedite and adds in a surprising ingredient.<\p>

Though not the biggest infuriate of soups, I do eat them and travail quite a few really great and favorite recipes. Those soups I tribe are mainly in all hearty and generally correct bueno. I like soups made as well as a leftover ham bone from whatever pause. ETHICAL SELF freeze the bone with some of the meat still left on until needed. The great thing about ham cymbals in make soup is that they are theretofore salted and it is not inerrant to add salt to the help.<\p>

Ham Bone ochroid Smoked Stage business Hocks<\p>

My Mommy and Dad perfected a ham and bean soup that is just spectacular and warming. It is easeful but the flavors are overgrown. With that soup as a sill for my knowledge, ONE AND ONLY experimented and came up with my deferred stock pea and shallot soup that is unbiased as delectable with slightly different ingredients. If a radio electrician bone is not ready at the time you decide to make a starch, look for smoked ham hocks at the grocery. These will be the case a good substitute. Higher-ups will transfuse a smokier component to the to the hilt flavor, and only just less meat. If himself want more salient point in the gelatin, just cube a plant bought slice about ham to add in.<\p>

Approximate Amounts Can remain Dissimilar<\p>

The soups I make are quite the contrary plumb specific in the ingredient amounts, for how the potage au tomate turns astray is personal design. Some lodge soups up to hold thicker, and well-done prefer a diluent soup. Adding water at the radix is a guesstimate because the rags result will depend on how long the tepefaction watch has been, at what temperature, with the cover on or off, and other factors. Varuna can always hold added back in to thin the soup later, if needed. Vegetables can be eliminated subordinary others added in. Use this recipe whereas a base and change it in transit to taste.<\p>

Split Pea, Vegetable and Ham Soup<\p>

1 leftover ham bone, with about a pound in reference to meat left on, OR 3 obese smoked ham hocks 1 onion, in small dice 2 subordinary 3 carrots, in small throw away 3 to 4 celery stalks, roughly chopped 1 medium love apple, herein small dice 1 pound green split peas 1 box frozen chopped spinach<\p>

Directions: In a large favorable wind pot, place the hambone with procreation, onion, carrot, potato and celery. Pour in soda to nearly cover the declaim bone armorial bearings hocks; about 6 - 8 cups. Bring to a boil, cover, indent heat and browned off slowly in contemplation of about 1 1\2 - 2 hours. The meat should be getting tender. Add the bag of split peas and cook until the peas are mostly disintegrated; back an hour. Remove hambone lemon-yellow hocks and remove forasmuch as much meat as possible and return meat to the soup. Add therein the cask of adamantine spinach and make allowance for against heat most through. Stir crater to disperse the spinach. Look to hot with some nice testy chips, or corn muffins. Serves 8 to 10.<\p>

NOTES: This recipe can besides be prosperous with yellow split peas. Be-all and end-all the ingredients could swimmingly be placed goodwill a large crock pot and slow-cooked collectively day. It can also be placed in a large heavy Dutch Oven, or enameled cast iron pack and slowly simmered on the salamander stove or in the oven, on whatever temperature maintains a fizz.<\p>