Recipe of Perfect Crockpot Split Pea Soup

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, crockpot split pea soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Crockpot Split Pea Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Crockpot Split Pea Soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

For a slightly thicker split pea soup, remove about a cup of cooked soup, blend until smooth and then add it back into the pot. One of these thickening agents would work, too. Do split peas need to be soaked before cooking? Split peas don't need to be soaked, but doing so can reduce the cooking, which is great if you're in a time crunch.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have crockpot split pea soup using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Crockpot Split Pea Soup:

1. Prepare 2 cup dried green split peas
2. Prepare 1 bay leaf
3. Prepare 1 onion, chopped
4. Take 2 carrots, sliced
5. Prepare 2 stalks of celery, sliced
6. Make ready 1 tsp salt
7. Get 1/2 tsp black pepper
8. Make ready 2 large ham hocks
9. Prepare 2 quart water
10. Prepare 1 cup mashed potatoes, opt

I love using smoked ham hocks in pea soup, it gives the soup a wonderful smoky flavor, but if you don't have ham hocks you can also use a leftover ham bone, ham steak or even smoked turkey leg instead. Add split peas, onion, carrots, celery, bell pepper, garlic, thyme, bay leaves, and ham hocks; season with salt and pepper. Add the split peas (no need to pre-soak), onion, carrots, thyme, ham, chicken bouillon cubes and water to the slow cooker. Something magical happens when dried split peas break down into a thick, naturally creamy, and delicious soup over several hours in the slow cooker.

Steps to make Crockpot Split Pea Soup:

1. Wash and sort split peas.
2. Add everything to crockpot except for mashed potatoes.
3. Cook on low for six to eight hours.
4. When veggies are tender, take out ham hocks, remove meat, and add meat to soup. Add mashed potatoes to soup to thicken. If you do not have mashed potatoes, you can puree two cups of soup when warm.

Add the split peas (no need to pre-soak), onion, carrots, thyme, ham, chicken bouillon cubes and water to the slow cooker. Something magical happens when dried split peas break down into a thick, naturally creamy, and delicious soup over several hours in the slow cooker. Here, all you do is lay down a layer of dried slit peas in your crockpot's insert, then add a layer of diced carrot, celery, and yellow onion, with some garlic, parsley, and a bay leaf. Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup is rich, warm, nourishing and incredibly flavorful. I'm pretty sure there is no way to make this soup look appetizing; in fact it was the color that turned me off to split pea soup for years.

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