This is the sixth recipe in the second collection in the recipe subsection of my personal website: Pea Soup. Click through for the same recipe as below with a photo illustration.
1 ham bone
16-oz dried split peas
2 carrots, peeled & diced
2 stalks celery, trimmed & diced
2 medium onions, peeled & diced
water1/2 to 1 lb ham, cubed (optional)
1. Check over split peas for random artifacts (off-color peas, small dirt clods, pebbles) and discard.
2. Place ham bone, peas, carrots, celery, and onions in slow cooker. Cover with water. Cook, covered, on low for 8 hours (or high for 4 hours).
3. Remove ham bone and set aside to cool. Strip any bits of meat from the bone and reserve, refrigerated. Discard bone.
4. Chill soup overnight.
5. Skim fat from surface of chilled soup and discard.
6. Add reserved ham bits plus additional cubed ham to chilled soup.
7. Reheat soup. If the soup is thicker than you prefer, add water to thin.
Makes 8-10 servings.
I will submit this to the Carnival of the Recipes.
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Oh, yummy. Where does one get ham bones? Does the supermarket carry them? (Seriously; I know they carry weird things like pickled pigs’ feet but who knows about the ham bone?)
If your grocery store has a service butcher department, you might ask about a ham bone — but I use the ham bones left over from baking a ham for Sunday dinner.
An alternative is using two (pre-cooked, usually smoked) ham hocks, which are usually available. The downside to ham hocks is that they render much more fat than the ham bone, so there is a lot more fat to skim after refrigerating overnight.
Happy cooking, and good eating!
cehwiedel