Classic Dissever Pea Soup

We accept lots of snowfall as well as it was 5 below nil a dyad nights ago. That tin reach the axe entirely hateful ane thing; it is hot soup season!! I dearest having a pot of soup on the stove (or inward the irksome cooker) all weekend.  This is a slap-up classic recipe for divide pea soup; it is  quick, easy, packed alongside flavor as well as ane of our favorite soups.

¾ pound smoked ham, cubed
1 loving cup onion chopped (I similar Vidalia or sweetness onions)
1 loving cup chopped celery
1 loving cup chopped carrot
1 pound dried divide peas (rinsed)
two quarts chicken stock
two medium potatoes, peeled as well as chopped
two teaspoons tabular array salt (see of import banker's complaint below)
¼ teaspoon dark pepper
1 loving cup cream (or one-half as well as half)

In a large stock pot, saute onion, celery as well as carrots together inward a tablespoon of vegetable (or canola) petroleum for a few minutes (they don't accept to endure cooked all the agency through).

Add the divide peas, chicken stock, potatoes, ham, tabular array salt as well as pepper. Bring to a boil, cut back rut as well as simmer piece of cake (covered) for nearly an sixty minutes or until the peas are very soft (stir occasionally).

Now yous accept to procedure the soup inward a nutrient processor or blender (stick blenders don't operate real good for this), hence operate inward small-scale batches, processing the soup until real smoothen as well as thick.

Return the soup to the stock pot as well as add together the cream (or one-half as well as half). Stir well and reheat , but don't boil.  When yous serve it, happen it alongside to a greater extent than or less crisp fried bacon (optional). I similar to decorate each bowl alongside a rolled upwards while of bacon (looks similar a "bacon rose" lol).
NOTE: Don't automatically add together the two teaspoons of tabular array salt earlier yous consider the following.  If yous are using dwelling made chicken stock that has not been salted, become ahead as well as role the two teaspoons of salt.

If yous are using a soup base, similar McCormicks soup base of operations (a fantastic product), good it has tabular array salt inward it (but non every bit much tabular array salt every bit bullion).

If yous role this, I would use entirely ½ to 1 teaspoon of salt.  If yous are using regular bullion, exit the tabular array salt out all together as well as sense of savor the soup simply earlier serving to depository fiscal establishment fit for tabular array salt content.

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