Pea Soup

By craftsks1

Ingredients

• Split Pea Soup
• From Betty's Soul Food Collection... Comfort food in a bowl, homemade soup does wonders for the soul!
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• Split Pea Soup
• Prep Time 20 min Total Time 3 hr 50 min Servings 8
• Ingredients
• 2 1/4 2 1/4
• cups dried split peas, (1 pound), sorted and rinsed
• 8 8
• cups water
• 1 1
• large onion, chopped (1 cup)
• 2 2
• medium celery stalks, finely chopped (1 cup)
• 1/4 1/4
• teaspoon pepper
• 1 1
• ham bone or 2 pounds shanks
• 3 3
• medium carrots, cut into 1/4-inch slices (1 1/2 cups)
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Preparation

Step 1

Directions
1Heat peas and water to boiling in 4-quart Dutch oven. Boil uncovered 2 minutes; remove from heat. Cover and let stand 1 hour.

2Stir in onion, celery and pepper. Add ham bone. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer about 1 hour 30 minutes or until peas are tender.
3Remove ham bone; remove ham from bone. Trim excess fat from ham; cut ham into 1/2-inch pieces.
4Stir ham and carrots into soup. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer about 30 minutes or until carrots are tender and soup is desired consistency.