Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, golden split pea soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Golden 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’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Golden Split Pea Soup is something that I have loved my entire life.

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