A really easy and totally delicious recipe for How To Make Pea and Ham Soup In A Slow Cooker.
I don’t know about you but I love a good soup recipe. I don’t however love the mess that making soup tends to bring to the top of my stove.
All that bubbling and boiling of liquids and veggies tends to send my undiagnosed borderline OCD clean freak tendencies into overdrive and I spend far too much time wiping down the stove top and it’s surrounds while the soup boils away and does it’s thing!
So today I’m going to share with you my secret to making a mess free soup: instead of using a pot, just throw everything in the good old slow cooker!
Yep, Pea and Ham Soup in a slow cooker is totally a thing. A mess free thing, in fact. Here’s how it’s done.
How to make Pea and Ham Soup In A Slow Cooker
Gather up your ingredients (500g Green Split Peas, 3 carrots, 3 celery sticks, 3 large onions, 3 garlic cloves, 1 smoked ham hock, 1 cup chicken stock, 12 cups water, 1 bay leaf) and arrange them in some sort of flat lay and snap a photo for your blog post chop up the veggies.
Put everything into the slow cooker and turn it onto low heat. Let it cook for 6-7 hours or until the meat falls off the bone of the ham hock.
Very carefully, remove the ham hock from the soup mixture. Place on a chopping board. Remove the skin and discard. Shred the meat and place in a large bowl.
Begin to puree the soup. It will be hot so be very careful! I find the best method is to puree no more than 2 cups of soup mixture in a blender at a time.
Once pureed, add the smooth soup mixture to the large bowl that you put the shredded ham hock meat in. Continue the process until all the soup is pureed. Return the pureed soup to the slow cooker and keep on low heat until ready to serve.
This will make a huge batch of soup that can be stored in the fridge for up to a week.
Are you a fan of Pea and Ham soup? Do you make it in the slow cooker?
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