How to Make The World’s Best Split Pea Soup

Real ingredients and just the littlest bit of elbow grease are what make this soup an heirloom recipe that everyone will love. Our classic Split Pea Soup calls for just seven ingredients—simple as can be—and a leisurely cooking time that’ll make your whole house smell amazing. Set aside a weekend afternoon for making a big batch and you’ll find out how special it is to start with scratch ingredients and end with one of the most warming, delicious soups you’ve ever tasted. Here’s how to make it!

What You’ll Need:

Ingredients for Split Pea Soup
4-quart Dutch oven
Knife

How To:

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

2. Stir in the chopped onion, celery and pepper. Add the ham bone. Heat to boiling again; reduce heat. Cover the pot and simmer for about 1 hour 30 minutes or until the peas are tender.

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3. Carefully remove the ham bone and set it on a cutting board; remove ham from bone. Trim the excess fat from the pieces of ham; cut ham into 1/2-inch pieces.

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4. Stir the ham and sliced carrots into the soup. Heat the soup to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer for about 30 minutes or until the carrots are tender and the soup has reached your desired consistency.

Split Pea Soup

Ingredients

- 2 1/4cups dried split peas, (1 pound), sorted and rinsed
- 8cups water
- 1large onion, chopped (1 cup)
- 2medium celery stalks, finely chopped (1 cup)
- 1/4teaspoon pepper
- 1ham bone or 2 pounds shanks
- 3medium carrots, cut into 1/4-inch slices (1 1/2 cups)

Directions

1In 4-quart Dutch oven, mix split peas, water, onion, celery and pepper. Add ham bone.
2Heat 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.

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