Best Yet Rustic Split Pea Soup

Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• i smoked turkey leg
• 1 lb split peas, rinsed and drained
• 1 large onion, diced
• 1 cup carrot, diced
• 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
• 1 teaspoon celery seed
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 2 quarts water
• 2 cups milk
• 1 cup half-and-half
• fresh ground pepper

Recipe

• 1 put the smoked turkey leg in a six-quart pot. oval pots are great, as turkey legs can be pretty long!
• 2 add the split peas and the 2 quarts of water.
• 3 bring to a boil, reduce to simmer.
• 4 after a while, there will be foam on top of the water. skim it all off and discard.
• 5 add the diced onion, carrot, sliced garlic, celery seed, salt and bay leaf.
• 6 simmer for one hour, mostly covered.
• 7 remove the bay leaf.
• 8 remove the turkey leg and allow it to cool enough to handle while you simmer the soup for another fifteen minutes.
• 9 remove skin, bones and tendon from turkey leg and dice the meat into bite sized pieces.
• 10 add meat back to soup.
• 11 add milk and half and half and heat to serving temperature.
• 12 serve in big bowls topped with freshly ground pepper.