Pea And Bacon Soup Recipe Ideas Healthy Easy Food

HEARTY SPLIT PEA SOUP WITH BACON

Steps:

• Dice bacon into 1/4-inch cubes. Place in a heavy 6-quart pot over medium-low heat. Cook until fat is rendered and translucent. Add onion, carrot, celery and garlic. Cook until onion and garlic are soft and translucent. Season with salt and pepper.
• Add split peas, stir to coat with fat, and add bay leaves and 2 quarts stock. Increase heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat so soup simmers. Skim foam that rises to the surface for about 10 minutes, until no more appears. Add thyme leaves. Simmer uncovered about 1 hour or longer, until peas are soft and starting to fall apart. Add more stock, as needed.
• Remove soup from heat. Add salt and pepper to taste. Purée soup in a food processor in several batches, short of perfect smoothness; you should be able to spoon up some texture. Reheat soup, skimming off any foam. Stir from the bottom to mix well, then ladle into bowls and serve.

PEA AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Put a large saucepan on a high heat, add olive oil, onions, chilli and garlic and cook for 2-3 minutes or until onions are translucent. 2. Cut eight of the bacon rashers into small strips, add to the pan and cook until the bacon is well browned. 3. Add the chicken stock and bring to the boil. Add the frozen peas, and as soon as it comes to a simmer, add the mint. 4. Let it simmer for one minute, then remove from the heat and blend to a fine puree. Season well with cracked pepper and flaked salt. 5. Fry up the remaining four bacon rashers until nice and crispy. 6. To serve, pour the soup into bowls, add a generous dollop of creme fraiche to each, drizzle with good quality olive oil and garnish with a crispy bacon rasher on top. Serve with the Three Blue Ducks garlic flatbread.

PEA AND BACON SOUP RECIPE IDEAS - HEALTHY & EASY RECIPES

Steps:

• Heat the oil over a moderate heat in a large saucepan. Add the bacon, onion, celery and leek, and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes, or until the vegetables are soft, but not coloured.
• Add the stock and the peas to the saucepan. Bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to cool a little.
• Purée the soup in batches in a blender or with a hand-held liquidiser until smooth. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Serve hot, garnished with mint and chopped cooked bacon.

GREEN SPLIT PEA AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a saucepan over medium high heat and add onion and garlic and cook stirring for about 3 minutes till onion is soft.
• Add peas and stir to coat.
• Add stock and cold water and bring to the boil.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer partially covered for 25 to 45 minutes or until peas are tender (see note above).
• Remove from heat and process half the soup in a blender or use a stick blender till smooth or do what I did and put the stick blender straight into the pot and process to your liking.
• Return to pot or if you just used the stick blender, stir in lemon juice and cook for 3 minutes or until heated through.
• While soup was cooking in the first 25 minutes, heat a frying pan over medium high heat and add bacon and cook till crisp or use recipe #208501 .
• Transfer to a plate lined with paper towel and drain.
• Crumble into pieces.
• Ladle soup into bowls and top with crumbled bacon and paprika and serve with a roll.

YELLOW PEA AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Soak the peas overnight in water to cover by 2".
• Next day fry bacon in a soup pot until fat begins to melt, 1-2 minutes; add the onions and saute over medium heat until lightly browned, about 10 minutes.
• Add the drained peas and water and bring to a boil; cover, reduce the heat and simmer, stirring frequently, for 45 minutes.
• In a blender, puree 1 cup of the soup and add it back to the soup pot with the salt; simmer another 5 minutes; add more water if soup is too thick; serve with a garnish of finely snipped sage.

JOE'S SPLIT PEA, BACON, HAM & POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Rinse peas in a colandar and set aside.
• Medium chop red onion, celery, and green pepper, and cut bacon into small pieces.
• Add the bacon to a large soup pot, and render the bacon, on medium high heat, until crispy. Add onions, celery and green pepper to the bacon and bacon fat, and cook until onions are translucent. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute more. Add the bay leaves, marjoram, black pepper, peas, water and bouillon granules and stir well. Add the ham bone and bring the soup to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 1-1/2 hours (90 minutes), stirring occasionally.
• Remove the ham bone and allow to cool. Meanwhile, cut up the potatoes into bite sized pieces and add to the soup pot. If soup if too thick, add additional water. Remove any remaining ham from the ham bone, cut the ham into bite sized pieces, and return to the soup pot. Check the soup pot for large pieces of ham, hunks of fat, etc. Cut up the ham, and remove the hunks of fat. Continue to simmer for 30 to 45 minutes, or until the potatoes are fork tender.
• Serve and enjoy.

COMFORT SOUP (CHICKPEA AND BACON)

Steps:

• Saute onion, garlic and bacon together until the onion is soft and translucent. Don't be tempted to drain the bacon fat (I use a rather lean bacon, anyway, and there's not that much fat - if you have tons of it, then remove some). Add the chickpeas, carrots, tomato paste, bay leaf and 1 1/2 quarts water. Season to taste. Bring to a simmer and cook, covered for 1/2 an hour. Add the pearl barley and simmer for another 40-60 minutes, or until the chickpeas and barley are cooked through and the soup is quite thick (if the soup is too thick, thin with a little hot water until you achieve the consistency you desire).
• This was a really satisfying meal with a tossed green salad and garlic bread.

PEA AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Cook bacon in large saucepan on medium heat 10 to 12 min. or until crisp, turning frequently. Remove bacon from pan; drain on paper towels. Discard all but 3 Tbsp. drippings from pan.
• Add onions, celery, carrots and garlic to reserved drippings; cook 4 min. or until crisp-tender, stirring frequently. Stir in all remaining ingredients except bacon; stir. Bring to boil; cover. Simmer on medium-low heat 1 to 1-1/2 hours or until peas are tender.
• Crumble bacon; stir into soup. Remove and discard bay leaf before serving.