Crock Pot Curried Split Pea Soup

Submitted by gobruijns

"A spin off your regular split pea soup recipe and a great way to use up leftover ham! I used my leftover ham bone from Christmas dinner. The kids loved it. I got this recipe using Better Homes and Gardens' "Slow Cooker Meals.""

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 1 lb dried split peas, rinsed and drained
• 1 lb smoked pork hocks or 1 lb ham bone
• 1 1⁄2 cups cooked ham, cubed
• 1 1⁄2 cups celery, coarsely chopped
• 1 cup onion, chopped
• 1 cup carrot, coarsely chopped
• 3 -4 teaspoons curry powder
• 1 tablespoon dried marjoram, crushed
• 2 bay leaves
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 6 cups water

directions

1. In a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker, combine split peas, pork hocks, ham, celery, onion, carrot, curry powder, marjoram, bay leaves, and pepper. Stir in the water.
2. Cover and cook on low-heat setting for 9 to 11 hours or on high-heat setting for 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 hours.
3. Discard bay leaves.
4. Remove pork hocks.
5. When pork hocks are cool enough to handle, remove meat from bones; discard bones.
6. Coarsely chop meat.
7. Return meat to soup.

Reviews

[littlemafia]

I was just at my first attempt of making split pea soup, while I was looking through the PAC autumn 09 adoption list. Pot was already on the stove, so I decided to try out the recipe and adopt you. I love this soup! It's fast and easy to put together and it's so yummy.Half of it didn't make it to the table. I split the soup in two -as it was my first try at making it- half I make it with curry and half without it. Now I can't decide which one was better. I soaked the peas overnight so it didn't take this long to boil.

 

[Gerry]

Couldn't pass this one - a split pea soup that one can put together so quickly and have the crock pot do all the work - perfect for those days when kitchen time is limited and there's a chill in the air. That it tasted like I had spent all day in the kitchen rates a high five! Find I have become keen on curry - the curry along with the rest of the ingredients has this one in my soup collection - it's a wonderful split pea soup.Thank you.