Recipe: Tasty Split Pea Ham Soup

Split Pea Ham Soup.

You can Cook Split Pea Ham Soup using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Split Pea Ham Soup

1. What You needis of In Dutch Oven.
2. Lets Go Prepare 1 tbsp of olive oil.
3. What You needis 1 tbsp of butter.
4. What You needis 1 cup of chopped onion.
5. What You needis 1 cup of chopped celery.
6. It's 1 cup of chopped carrots.
7. Lets Go Prepare 2 clove of chopped garlic.
8. What You needis 2 cup of dried green split peas (rinsed and sorted through to insure no little rocks are going in your soup).
9. It's 2 1/2 tsp of Vegeta (seasoned vegetable salt).
10. What You needis 8 cup of chicken broth.
11. Lets Go Prepare 1 of dried bayleaf.
12. It's 1 lb of smoked kielbasa, cut into large chunks. so its easy to remove before blending soup. Slice up after cooking.

Split Pea Ham Soup instructions

1. Sautee butter, oil, celery, carrot, onion and garlic over medium heat, until onions are translucent..
2. Add chicken broth, green split peas, bayleaf and vegeta.
3. Add smoked kielbasa.
4. Bring up to boil, then reduce to a low simmer. Simmer for 1 1/2 hours, covered, stirring occasionally (or until peas are somewhat falling apart and tender).
5. NOW I like my soup a little chunky, but some like it completely blended. I just use my immersion (stick) blender and pulse it a few times, until I reach a desired consistency. You can use a blender too, if you would like. REMOVE BAYLEAF AND MEAT BEFORE BLENDING.
6. Slice up kielbasa. Add back to soup. Enjoy!.
7. You can substitute smoked ham hock, cubed ham steak, reg sausage...whatever you choose..