Add Ham & Seasoning to Split Pea Soup

Video Transcript

"Uhm! I'm Stephanie Barnett here on behalf of Expert Village. I am going to show you today how to make a fabulous Split Pea Soup. I am now going to add my ham hock to the soup, so I am just going to place it in there. If you notice, I kind of held it with the paper that it came wrapped around. That way I don't have to go wash my hands again. When you touch raw meat or even if this is smoked, you are still going to have to wash your hands. So have really good hygiene in the kitchen. I've added that back in there. You want to make sure that it is submerged. Mine is almost submerged. I may need to add a little bit more water. I am going to add a little bit of pepper to this and the tiniest bit of salt because that ham hock is already salty and will impart a salty flavor to the soup. So I am just going to add a pinch of salt. You can test the soup once it is done cooking. It now needs to cook for at least an hour. Once you've cooked this soup, you can take the ham hock out and if it hasn't shredded on its own, you can shred on a plate and then add the meat back to the soup. But you can also before you add the meat back to the soup, if you have an emerge blender, one of those blenders that go actually in the liquid, you can blend this soup or you can add a little bit of it and let it cool down a little bit and put in your blender if you like a creamier soup. Then you can add the pieces of ham hock back and it will be ready to eat. "