Does anyone have a really really good recipe for green split pea soup made with a ham hock? I have been wanting a good old fashioned recipe for this for a while and am never satisfied with want I come up with.

Progresso Soups has wonderful split pea soup.

Oh my, I don't think there is anything good about Pea Soup, either a recipe or canned!! But my DH loves it and I buy it if I'm going out of town!!

Split peas, carrots, water. Follow the directions on the package of peas. Add ham hocks and cook for flavor. I always add some chicken broth for flavor, If you have a turbo blender after peas are cooked run them through blender for thickness. I always add hambone too.

I have made Split pea soup for years. I use a crockpot. Put in the peas and the ham hock, water, five peppercorns, some dried onion flakes - not a whole lot and let simmer for four hours or so until the hock meat comes off easily. Then, here it comes, I add about three thin sliced carrots, some celery slices and about 1/2C instant barley. Because it is instant it works fast and you will find you may need more - just a little bit at a time. You can add a little more water if the ham hock took up a lot of room and you find that you don't have enough soup juice there. The barley gives the soup a whole new texture and it is really good. I like my pea soup smooth, not lumpy. I usually keep it cooking all day long. I don't add any salt. The ham hock is salty enough! I serve it with soft bread sticks. Love to butter the sticks and dip them in the soup!

Hope it works for you - as a matter of fact I have a ham hock and split peas, sounds good for a dinner this week. Thanks for the idea. Edie

This is my mother's recipe. A little different but we love it.

3 quarts of water
1 ham bone (never tried ham hocks but I'm going to)
1 bay leaf
1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 stalk celery- diced
1 lb. split peas
Cook for about 2 hours
Add 2-3 diced potatoes and cook 30 minutes
Add drop dumplings and cook 5 minutes more

Recipe for drop dumplings
6 Tablespoons of flour,1 egg, tiny bit of water to make a thick paste, (consistency should be sticky)
Drop small amounts off of teaspoon into soup.

I also add a little onion and pepper. Otherwise I make it this way exactly. This is the best recipe!

have you ever tried the yellow split peas. they have a great recipe on the bag. i just made it last week. i thought was wonderful. i'm not crazy about the green ones. the yellow ones seem to be a little sweeter.

Yes! The yellow peas make a wonderful soup too!
Now I am getting hungry and I just had a big plate of Ployes for breakfast!
Going to make chicken n dumplings for dinner though.

I used to follow the recipe on the package of split peas. Carrots, celery and onion are the only ingredients I usually add (besides the ham for flavoring). Sounds good!

Thank you for your recipes. I'm going to try making it in the slow cooker like you Edie (recipe is similar to Quilt Till U Wilt's, minus the potatoes). This sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. And we love barley!

1 or 2 bags of split peas. 1 fresh garlic clove mashed with a knife. 1 carrot pealed and diced. 1 or 2 smoked ham hocks. Cup of diced yellow onion. 1 bay leaf. 2 stalks of celery diced. Add water to bag directions. Bring to boil, then simmer till peas are like dissolved. Remove ham hocks and take off fat and bone, dice meat add to soup. This soup will thicken over night its awesome.

I use the ham hock too, but I also add bite size pieces of ham leftovers from a cooked ham. Another little secret my Mother did was add a capful of liquid smoke to the pot.

mmmmm sounds good about now! And I have all the ingredients to make it! A good cold winter day is coming so I may just break out the bag of peas. I'm the only one who likes them but I deserve special dishes too!

I also add a little Liquid Smoke to the pot.

Sue

My family and neighbors loves my pea soup...but I won't touch it....

water to cover the bone
Ham bone with leftover ham left on
1 bag of green split peas
bag of carrots
celery, onion, potatoes
1 bay leaf
a little salt

Put peas and bone into the pot with bayleaf and salt/pepper. Cook about 48 min. add the veggies...
When meat is falling off the bone...remove bone and meat...chop ham and remove the rest from bone.
Remove bay leaf...
Add ham back into the pot and cook till veggies are tender...

I make mine the same as I make bean soup only with the dried split peas instead. I have never tried putting potatoe in it. Will have to try it sometime.

My mom made the best split pea soup. She waited till we had ham and then she used the left over bone with some ham left on it. She would put the hame bone in a dutch oven and add diced onion, garlic, salt&pepper, and dried split peas. (2 small or 1 larger bag)cover with water and let simmer about 1 to 2 hrs. Remove the bone and let cool, remove meat from bone and dice up. add back to soup and simmer till peas dissolve and soup thickens. Very yummy with grilled cheese on a cold evening! (I have made it with bacon ends also) :thumbup:

This is my recipe also, but I also add onions, pepper, and a little garlic powder.

I use this recipe too, but substitute turkey ham, as I'm allergic to pork. It still tastes great. I add onion,fresh garlic and grated carrots.

This is about the way I make mine, but I've never tried dumplings. Sounds good though. I always add about 1/4 tsp of jar style garlic. Ham hocks are best, but you can also add diced ham pieces from left over ham. I cook most of the day and make sure that all peas are disolved so that the soup is creamy.

Soumnds yummy