Healthy Pea Soup

It was a nice cold October day and we decided to make a soup for dinner. We selected split pea soup as it is a high fiber meal, 16 g dietary fiber just for the split peas alone! Adding the carrots and celery give a couple more to make this a filling soup. If you buy ham from behind the deli counter, you'd be surprised by how low the sodium in the meat is compared to buy them in refrigerated section of the grocery store.

This is also the first pea soup we have ever added carrots and celery to...definitely makes the soup better.

All of our fresh ingredents

Rinsed and picked over the split peas and added them to the crock pot

All the vegetables chopped

Dicing the ham

Herbs, ham, vegetables and split peas added...now  comes the broth

Added the fresh ground pepper to taste

Ready to enjoy!

Healthy Split Pea Soup

Ingredients:

1 lb dry split peas

1/2 lb Boar's Head Low Sodium Ham, diced

1 large yellow onion, diced

1 cup celery, chopped

2 cups carrots, chopped

3 cloves of garlic, minced

1/2 teaspoon thyme

2 bay leaves

32 oz of chicken broth

2 cups water

fresh ground pepper to taste

Instructions:

1. Place all ingredients into crock pot. Cover and and cook on LOW for 7-8 hours or on HIGH for 4-5 hours.