Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, golden split pea soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook golden split pea soup using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

Instructions 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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