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Instant Pot Split Pea Soup

Instant Pot Ham Bone Pea Soup

Kate Schat
Hambone and Pea Soup transforms a few, simple ingredients into such a hearty and delicious soup. The Instant Pot takes a recipe that used to simmer all day and gets it on the table in under 2 hours!
4.86 from 7 votes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Pressure Release Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Course Soup
Cuisine American
Servings 4 servings
Calories 551 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients
  

  • Leftover hambone mostly picked clean of meat (cube and reserve the meat for later)
  • 2 carrots
  • 2 head garlic skin on
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 3 litres water
  • 3 cups split peas
  • 2 quarts/litres broth
  • 1-2 tablespoons curry powder depending on taste preferences (swap for 1-2 teaspoon each cumin powder, turmeric and coriander powder if don't have curry powder)
  • 2 tablespoons dried minced onions, or ½https://youtu.be/CrJJamHBqnc c chopped onion

Instructions
 

  • Make the broth in the Instant Pot by adding the hambone, carrots, garlic, bay leaves, and water.
  • In your instant pot put-
  • Cook on high pressure for 30 minutes.
  • Let it rest for 20 minutes after then manual pressure release. (Open it too soon after it's done and you'll paint your kitchen with soup, in my experience!)
  • Strain your broth into a separate bowl/pot.
  • Then place the split peas, 2 litres bone broth, curry powder, and onions into the Instant Pot.
  • Cook on high pressure for 15 minutes, let sit 10 minutes, then manual pressure release. (This is going to be thicker than you want, but you still have broth leftover to thin it to preference.)
  • Stir in your reserved cubed meat, as well as pick the meat off the cooked bone.
  • Now is when you salt and pepper your soup to taste. Hams vary in saltiness so I don't suggest salting it until the end.

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Nutrition

Calories: 551kcalCarbohydrates: 100gProtein: 38gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 0.3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.4gSodium: 86mgPotassium: 1667mgFiber: 40gSugar: 14gVitamin A: 5336IUVitamin C: 11mgCalcium: 153mgIron: 7mg
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