Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot)

Name: Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot)
Total time: 3000 s
Yield: 4-6 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 pound split peas; 7 cups chicken broth; 6-7 rashers bacon; 1 smoked ham hock; 1 large carrot grated; 1 small onion chopped; 1 tspn black pepper; 1 dash olive oil

Chef Weird Beard @ChefWeirdBeard

San Antonio, Texas

This #Bacon Split Pea #Soup cooked speedily in the #Instantpot will rock your socks off, especially when served with any type of bread. As a child I would have it with fresh pumpernickel.

Chef Weird Beard @ChefWeirdBeard

San Antonio, Texas

This #Bacon Split Pea #Soup cooked speedily in the #Instantpot will rock your socks off, especially when served with any type of bread. As a child I would have it with fresh pumpernickel.

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Ingredients

50 mins

4-6 servings

1 poundsplit peas
7 cupschicken broth
6-7 rashersbacon
1smoked ham hock
1large carrot grated
1small onion chopped
1tspn black pepper
1 dasholive oil

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Steps

50 mins

1

Chop onions to desired size, chop bacon to about 1 inch squares, and grate carrot with cheese grater
2

Sauté onions with oil in instant pot for about 2 minutes, then toss in bacon 🥓 and cook until it’s the consistency of ham. They need not be crispy but you don’t want them rubbery.
3

Turn off the sauté function. Add split peas, chicken broth, ham hock, carrots 🥕, and pepper. Set instant pot to 25 minutes and cook.
4

Whisk hot soup before serving to break up clumps of split pea, there should be some stuck to the bottom of the pot, try not to reincorporate this into the soup. I garnished mine with fried rosemary garlic sourdough croutons.
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VARIANT: replace the bacon and ham hock with a smoked turkey leg. After soup is cooked, remove turkey leg, pull meat from bone, and return meat to soup.