Canadian

Split Pea Soup with Ham

Name: Split Pea Soup with Ham
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients: 2 cups dried yellow split peas; 1 ham bone; 1 onion; 2 carrots; 2 stalks celery; 6 cups chicken stock; 1 bay leaves; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Jenny @jenny_calgary

Split Pea Soup with Ham is Canadian home cooking, eaten at dinner and lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

90 min Medium High fiber Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups dried yellow split peas
1 ham bone
1 onion
2 carrots
2 stalks celery
6 cups chicken stock
1 bay leaves
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Combine the split peas, ham bone, diced onion, carrot, celery, chicken stock, and bay leaf in a large pot.
Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook, partially covered, until the peas break down, about 75 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Remove the ham bone, shred any meat, and return it to the pot.
Season with pepper and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Split Pea Soup with Ham

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Canadian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Split Pea Soup with Ham, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Green Beans
  
  10 min
What it is eaten with
- Canadian Dinner Rolls
  
  12 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Split Pea Soup with Ham carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Split Pea Soup with Ham
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 400 kcal
Protein: 26 g
Carbs: 46 g
Fat: 12 g
Fiber: 10 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 800 mg
Saturated fat: 3 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Split Pea Soup with Ham takes about 90 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner and lunch. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.