Home made Pea N Ham soup

Home made pea and ham soup
Cooking time around 40 mins

Ingredients

Bacon ribs or bacon joint
Mushy peas either frozen or the dried kind
2 chicken stock cubes
3 leeks
6 carrots
2 large onions
herbs if required

Peel and cut your carrots,leeks and onions

Start off by boiling the bacon ribs or the bacon joint in a pan of water,this I find better as if they are boiled in the soup the soup can get too salty from the bacon.When cooked drain well and cut up into small chunks.If you are using bacon ribs you can add them whole or cut up.

Next put a bag of frozen mushy peas into a pan with the water covering the peas by about 3 inches,add the chicken stock cubes and simmer.

When the peas are about quarter cooked add the carrots,onions and leeks.

Continue simmering until the peas are mushy,and carrots are soft.
Your soup is ready.
Great served with crusty cobs.
If you want a crispy soup save some of the leeks and add them when the soup is almost ready,as while the soup is simmering the leeks will dissolve into nothing,still adds great taste though.
You can use smoky ribs or bacon joint too,this still works well and gives the soup a smoky taste.
You can also add whatever herbs you have hanging around or your preffered ones.
should you find that you prefer your soup thicker you can add mashed potato to thicken up or the old reliable cornflower.
Please note you may use as many onions,leeks as you prefer I have only put thew amounts as a general guidline.

Written by Admin on 2007/10/19 | Permalink to this article