Split Pea With Polish Kielbasa

Comfort food that will feed your soul. Make a trip to a polish store to buy smoked kielbasa and you will not regret it. The soup will be only as good as ingredients in it.

• Ready In: 1 hr 40 mins
• Serves: 20-25
• Yields: 50 cups

Ingredients

• 3  cups  split peas
• 2  carrots, grated
• 3  potatoes
• 8  cups  homemade beef stock or 8  cups water
• 10  ounces Polish kielbasa, cubed smoked from polish speciality store, not from supermarket please will never be the same

• Optional

•  bay leaf, whole spice
•  marjoram

Directions

1. Boil water/homemade stock add split pea and kielbasa and optional ingredients, cooked until peas will fell apart (IMPORTANT do not add potatos until pea fall apart).
2. When peas are ready add carrots and potatos cook untlil potatos are ready but not to soft.
3. Garnish with lots of dry marjorian.
4. This recipe yields large amount of soup. You may need to freeze lftovers or share with your coworkers (remember not everyone eats pork thou :) ).
5. Base for my other soups: Water, beef bones or pork neck bones or both, bay leaves, whole spices (4).2 carrots, 2 celery sticks, one parsnips, one leak. You can add onion also. For better taste fry the veggies with no oil on nonstick pan for 3 to 4 minutes. You will love the sweet taste of parsip and smell of veggies. Simmer for an hour.
6. Note: Soup plate yields about 350g of soup.