Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, golden split pea soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Golden Split Pea Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Golden Split Pea Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have golden split pea soup using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Golden Split Pea Soup:

1. Take 2 1/2 cups split peas
2. Get Water to cover peas after rinsing
3. Take 1/2 lb Bacon (about 6 slices)
4. Take 4 carrots sliced
5. Prepare 1/2 white onion diced
6. Make ready 3 large ribs celery sliced
7. Get 1 large ham shank or multiple smaller ones which I used here
8. Prepare Fresh ground black pepper
9. Take 1 tsp dried thyme
10. Make ready 3 garlic cloves sliced
11. Prepare 2 cups chicken broth

Steps to make Golden Split Pea Soup:

1. Chop and fry bacon until crispy, pour off most bacon fat
2. Deglaze pan using chicken stock
3. Add all chopped veggies herbs and pepper, cook until aromatic
4. Add peas, water and chicken broth, stir.
5. Add ham shank and bring everything to a boil and skim off the foam
6. Cover and cook on low at least 3-4 hours until meat falls off the bone removing bones and skin from shank out of soup and the peas are tender. Do not add additional salt during cooking, the bacon and ham shanks with the broth have plenty, just season with black pepper to taste.
7. You can adjust thickness of soup by adding water during the cooking process and adjust seasonings to taste, if you want to add more salt I would add it to your bowl instead of the pot, so it's not too salty.

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