Best Yet Rustic Split Pea Soup
Ingredients
Instructions
- Put the smoked turkey leg in a six-quart pot. Oval pots are great, as turkey legs can be pretty long!
- Add the split peas and the 2 quarts of water.
- Bring to a boil, reduce to simmer.
- After a while, there will be foam on top of the water. Skim it all off and discard.
- Add the diced onion, carrot, sliced garlic, celery seed, salt and bay leaf.
- Simmer for one hour, mostly covered.
- Remove the bay leaf.
- Remove the turkey leg and allow it to cool enough to handle while you simmer the soup for another fifteen minutes.
- Remove skin, bones and tendon from turkey leg and dice the meat into bite sized pieces.
- Add meat back to soup.
- Add milk and half and half and heat to serving temperature.
- Serve in big bowls topped with freshly ground pepper.
Nutrition & Diet Analysis (per serving)
561
kcal
28% DV
Protein
Fat
Carbs
* % Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet (FDA 2020).