Description
Comforting soup filled with flavor and memories.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups (1 pound) split peas
- 4 cups water
- 8 cups ham broth with meat
- 2 large white onions, diced
- 4 large cloves garlic, chopped
- 4 carrots, diced
- 6 strips bacon, cut into small pieces
- 2 Tbsp oil or bacon grease
- 1 tsp marjoram
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Pour 4 cups boiling water over the peas, and allow to soak for an hour.
- Meanwhile, in a large stock pot, brown bacon until crisp. Using a slotted spoon, remove bacon to paper-lined plate to drain. Discard all but 2 Tbsp fat.
- Over medium heat, sauté onions until tender in bacon fat, about 10 minutes. Then add garlic and carrots, the marjoram, thyme, and black pepper, and cook another 5 minutes.
- Drain and rinse the peas, and add half of them to the stock pot.
- Add the ham broth, cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Using a stick blender, process the soup until semi-smooth.
- Add the rest of the peas and simmer another 15-20 minutes uncovered.
- Add ham and bacon and heat through. Season with salt, if desired.
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
