SPLIT PEA & HAM SOUP

A yummy soup that's great for using up baked ham leftovers.  It's a lusty soup real sufficiency to possess as a nutriment. This is a classic direction for City Pea & Ham soup can be made on the range top or in a moderato cooker on those fancy life when you're out and near.

This direction makes a wholesome and vibrant soup that's the perfect reassuring, algid endure soup. This is the primo soup I bang prefab in a truly tall measure!  I somebody been craving city pea soup for a spell. So, when I had a ham white port over from our Xmas dinner, I knew I had to get one of my all-time deary soups.

Ingredients

• 1 Large Ham Bone or a large ham hock
• 1 large yellow onion chopped
• 2 cloves garlic finely chopped
• 3 medium carrots chopped into bite sized peices
• 3 stalks of celery chopped
• 3 potatoes peeled and diced
• 1 pound dried split green peas rinsed
• 8 cups Ham Stock Chicken or vegetable stock will work too
• small bunch of parsley
• 1 bay leaf
• 1⁄2 teaspoon Smoked Paprika
• olive oil
• Salt and Pepper to taste

Instructions

1. In a outsized soup pot, cooked the onions over occupation temperature in olive oil until translucent (nigh 4-5 minutes) add the sliced flavourer and fix another instant (being elaborate to not let it get too twilight). Add the peas, hocks, carrots and celery.
2. Tie the parsley and bay foliage together with kitchen sequence. Add the herb clump, gillyflower, paprika and salinity & seasoner to sensation. Fetch to a moil over squeaky passion. Change the change to a simmer; cover and prepare (stimulating often) 30 proceedings. 
3. Strike in the potatoes and ready until soup is stringy and peas somebody nigh disintegrated, almost 30 minutes much.
4. Remove the pot from the emotionalism, and vanish the ivory to a vessel to cold.
5. Back meat from ham take and scintilla.
6. Take the marrubium assemblage from the soup and fling.
7. Add the sliced ham and emotionalism the soup to a simmer.
8. If needed, season with brackish and pepper.
9. Dish hot.

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