Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot). Bacon, bay leaves, and garlic lend bold flavor to this Instant Pot® split pea soup that's easily adaptable for vegetarians. Instant Pot Split Pea and Bacon Soup is a tasty, smoky take on the classic split pea soup recipe. Though this Split Pea Soup is typically made with ham, I don't usually have leftover ham in my fridge.
Split-pea warning and precautions Most pressure cooker manuals include a standard line warning against pressure cooking split-peas primarily because they can gum-up the safety valves.
The most delicious split pea soup….made in the Instant Pot!
This easy soup recipe has bacon, ham steak, carrots and onions.
You can cook Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot) using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot)
- Prepare 1 pound of split peas.
- It's 7 cups of chicken broth.
- You need 6-7 rashers of bacon.
- Prepare 1 of smoked ham hock.
- It's 1 of large carrot grated.
- Prepare 1 of small onion chopped.
- You need 1 of tspn black pepper.
- It's 1 dash of olive oil.
It's warm and comforting for winter months. Soup is one of my favorite things to make in the Instant Pot. No simmering all day in the slow cooker or the stovetop. For our version of Instant Pot split pea soup, we wanted to make it a vegan, whole food plant based recipe.
Bacon Split Pea Soup (Instant Pot) step by step
- Chop onions to desired size, chop bacon to about 1 inch squares, and grate carrot with cheese grater.
- 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..
- Turn off the sauté function. Add split peas, chicken broth, ham hock, carrots 🥕, and pepper. Set instant pot to 25 minutes and cook..
- 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..
- Complete! Share a cooksnap & tell us what you thought!.
- 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..
So to mimic a little of the smoky flavor of ham and bacon, we've used liquid smoke instead! It's a small jar and you can usually find it near the condiments in the grocery store. One of the most comforting soup recipes, this Instant Pot split pea soup is a simple dump-and-go type of meal. Vegetarians can enjoy it meatless, and meat lovers can add ham bone or bacon. Vegetarians can enjoy it meatless, and meat lovers can add ham bone or bacon.