Split Pea Soup (crockpot). Freeze Option: Freeze cooled soup in freezer containers. To use, thaw overnight in the refrigerator. In a slow cooker combine split peas, onion, carrots, celery, garlic, thyme, ginger, and red pepper flakes..
Split pea soup is pure comfort food for many and it's surprisingly easy to make at home.
All you need is a slow cooker, a ham bone or ham hocks, peas, and a few veggies.
Get it started in the morning, let it cook slowly all day, and it's ready for dinner.
You can cook Split Pea Soup (crockpot) using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Split Pea Soup (crockpot)
- Prepare 1 of meaty Ham bone.
- It's 1 lb of bag dry split Peas.
- It's 6 of cups Water.
- You need 1 large of Onion, chopped.
- You need 4 stick of Celery, sliced.
- Prepare 5 of or 6 Chicken bullion cubes.
- It's 1 tsp of Thyme, Garlic powder and Black pepper, each.
- It's 1/2 tsp of Red pepper.
- You need 1 of bag mini Carrots.
In a slow cooker, arrange, in layers, the peas, ham, carrots, onion, celery, garlic, bay leaf, and parsley. Top with chicken broth, but do not stir. Remove meat from bones and return the meat to the pot. This slow-cooker version of split-pea soup is as easy as it gets and is packed with healthy fiber and protein.
Split Pea Soup (crockpot) step by step
- Slice meat from ham bone, remove visible fat. Add bone and meat to crockpot..
- Add 6 cups water, and rest of ingredients except carrots..
- Cover and cook on high 5 hrs..
- Meanwhile cook carrots separately until soft..
- After 5 hrs remove bone from pot, break up big chunks of meat, then add cooked carrot..
- Serve with bread & butter..
Serve it with crusty bread and you've got a soul-warming meal ready to go. Vegetarian Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup. Got this recipe online a couple years ago. I've tweaked it a little bit and will probably continue to experiment by throwing other vegetables in. It's a great soup for a cold day when I know I won't have time to cook dinner.