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.
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