Winter has Arrived; Pea Soup need to drive away the winter chills!!

Winter has Arrived; Pea Soup need to drive away the winter chills!!

It is mid winter here in South Africa, thus I decided to make some good old Pea Soup to drive away the winter chills.

It is quite an easy soup to make for which I use the following ingredients:

• 1 packet of split peas
• 1 patato
• 1/2 an onion
• 1 packet of bacon
• 2 small packets of pork shin
• 1 packet of onion soup powder
• Salt and pepper to taste

This soup takes about two days to make properly!!
To make the soup, you need to soak the split peas in a pot full of water for a day.

When the peas are soaked, you grate the potato and the 1/2 a onion, and add it to the peas.

Then you add the bacon and pork shin and also the soup powder and salt and pepper.

I use a slow cooker to cook the soup. I start by leaving it over night on low. I started it around 21:00 and went to bed.

After a nice night of sweet dreams, I walked down the corridor towards the kitchen and was greeted by the very great smelling aroma of the soup in the kitchen!!

I now put the slow cooker on high and stir the soup about once every hour. You will note that the peas are still not cooked fine, the soup need to cook until all the peas are fine. (gone)

Below you can see the end product!

This is a real great tasting soup, for people who loves soup!!

Our dog also loves this soup as he gets to eat the fat from the pork shin, as we try to eat less fat!!

You can also put a leaner cut of pork in the soup, but I love the shin as it gives a good taste to the soup.

I enjoyed this soup very much and was telling my wife that I already want to make some more!!

I hope you liked the post as much as I liked writing it.

I hope you have a wonderful day!!