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Camellia Brand

Dutch Split Pea Soup

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Ingredients:

  • 9 cups water or chicken broth
  • 1 (1-pound) package dried Camellia Brand Green Split Peas
  • 2 pounds smoked ham hocks
  • 6 leeks
  • 4 celery stalks (with leaves), sliced
  • 2 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons crushed dried savory leaves
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 pound cooked, sliced smoked sausage (kielbasa or knockwurst)
Yield:
8

Directions:

  1. Rinse and sort peas.
  2. Heat water and peas to boiling in Dutch oven; boil 2 minutes. Remove from heat; cover and let stand 1 hour. 
  3. Add remaining ingredients, except sausage, to peas. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer until pork is tender, about 2 hours. Skim fat if necessary.
  4.  Remove pork hocks; cool slightly. Trim fat and bone from pork. Cut pork into 1/2-inch pieces. Stir pork and sausage into soup. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer until sausage is hot, 15 minutes.
  5. Remove sausage and slice, then put back in soup.

Ingredients used in this Recipe

garlic smoked ham hocks smoked sausage celery stalks green split peas leeks