Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot)
Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot)

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Turn on a multi-functional pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot®) and select Saute function. Let warm up and add butter and olive oil. Add onion, celery, bay leaves, and thyme.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bacon split pea soup (instant pot) using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot):
  1. Make ready 1 pound split peas
  2. Get 7 cups chicken broth
  3. Make ready 6-7 rashers bacon
  4. Prepare 1 smoked ham hock
  5. Get 1 large carrot grated
  6. Prepare 1 small onion chopped
  7. Take 1 tspn black pepper
  8. Make ready 1 dash olive oil

NEVER fill the pressure cooker more than half-full with split peas and their cooking liquid. Keep at least a tablespoon of fat as indicated in the recipe - if you're not using pancetta/bacon add oil. ALWAYS release pressure using ONLY Natural Release (do not use the valve, don't use cold-water quick, don't use base immersion). Heat Instant Pot on Saute function.

Steps to make Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot):
  1. Chop onions to desired size, chop bacon to about 1 inch squares, and grate carrot with cheese grater
  2. Sauté onions with oil in instant pot for about 2 minutes, then toss in bacon 🥓 and cook until it’s the consistency of ham. They need not be crispy but you don’t want them rubbery.
  3. Turn off the sauté function. Add split peas, chicken broth, ham hock, carrots 🥕, and pepper. Set instant pot to 25 minutes and cook.
  4. Whisk hot soup before serving to break up clumps of split pea, there should be some stuck to the bottom of the pot, try not to reincorporate this into the soup. I garnished mine with fried rosemary garlic sourdough croutons.
  5. Complete! Share a cooksnap & tell us what you thought!
  6. VARIANT: replace the bacon and ham hock with a smoked turkey leg. After soup is cooked, remove turkey leg, pull meat from bone, and return meat to soup.

Split pea soup is a hearty, nutrient rich soup. Fiber, protein and potassium are packed inside this soup. Because of the bacon, ham and broth this soup can be high in sodium. You can use a low sodium broth and bacon. Cook until fat is rendered and translucent.

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