Split Pea Soup Recipe
Split Pea Soup Recipe is delicious, tasteful and yammi dish. Split Pea Soup can be made in less than few minutes with the help of very few ingredients which is available at your nearest super market.Split Pea Soup recipe easy to make at your home check below step by step directions of the recipe and enjoy cooking.
Yield: 4 people
Calories: 256kcal
Materials
- 2 c split peas
- 7 c water (or broth)
- 1/4 c butter
- 1 lg onion chopped
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 2 carrots diced
- 2 stalks celery chopped
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 t dried basil crumbled
- 1 ham bone (optional)
- 2 tablespoon nutritional yeast
- and 2 teaspoon. tamari soy
- sauce (1 t honey (or brown sugar)
- Salt
- Black pepper
- 1/4 c fresh parsley chopped
Instructions
- Cover split peas with water or broth, bring to a boil for 2 minutes, remove from heat and let stand for one hour.
- In a large soup pot, saut onion and garlic in butter until light golden. Add carrots and celery and saute for 2 minutes more.
- Stir in peas, after their hour is up, and the herbs. If using a ham bone, add it now. If using the vegetarian version, do not put in the yeast and tamari.
- For both versions, only add salt, honey and pepper when soup is finished cooking. Simmer for about 1 1/2 hours, or until the peas are cooked and mushy.
- Stir occasionally to keep it from sticking to the bottom of the pan. When peas are done, remove the ham bone, or for vegetarian version, add the yeast and tamari, then for both add honey and salt and pepper to taste. Stir in fresh parsley.
- Serve plain or with garnishes of onion, grated cheese or sour cream.