Recipes

Jan’s Pea and Ham Soup

Ingredients:

  • 1 small leek
  • A few small carrots
  • About 300g chunky bacon offcuts
  • 200g yellow split peas
  • salt and pepper
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 clove garlic

Rinse peas and boil on their own … and then remove scum from top of the water

Chop leek and carrots ( but not the ham) and throw everything in together with a few cups of water and simmer for an hour to an hour and a half.

Remove the bacon chunks from the cooking mixture.

Blend remaining mixture in a blender.

Chop the bacon chunks up separately and add to the blended mix. Reserve a little ham for garnish.

Serve hot with some parsley and bacon as garnish.

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We reckon all the ham in this soup goes mighty well with a nice cold retsina.

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