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overnight Related Recipes
Cooking time
over 2 hours
Serves
Serves 6
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By Emily Angle
This hearty split pea soup gets its flavour from ham hock.
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pancakes for dessert!
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1. Put the split peas in a bowl with the bicarbonate of soda. Cover with cold BBC Two
water and leave to soak overnight.
2. Put the ham hock in a large saucepan, cover it with 1½–2 litres/2½–3½
pints cold water and bring to the boil. As soon as it has reached boiling Recipes from this episode
point remove from the heat. Drain, wash the ham hock and the pan to
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get rid of any starchy foam.
4. Rinse the split peas and put in a saucepan, bring to the boil and boil for
10 minutes. Drain the peas and add to the ham hock pan along with the
chopped onion and carrot. Simmer until the peas are tender, this should
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5. Remove the ham hock, whole onion, bay and mace. Break up the ham
hock, discarding the skin and bone and pull the meat into pieces.
6. Add the mustard to the soup and season with salt and pepper. Use a
stick blender to blend to a rough purée, add the ham hock meat back
into the soup and warm through.
7. Lightly whip the cream, if using, and fold gently into the soup. Serve with
chunky bread.
Recipe Tips
Green split peas are traditional, but yellow peas are also fine.
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