President Polk's Split Pea Soup
"I modernized this one. It was an all day cooking recipe."
Original is 6 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (232.4 g)
- Calories 126.6
- Total Fat - 0.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.1 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 223 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 22.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 9.2 g
- Sugars - 3.7 g
- Protein - 9.1 g
- Calcium - 33.5 mg
- Iron - 2 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
In a 3 quart soup pot: Saute bacon and remove.
Step 2
Add clove to one slice onion.
Step 3
Sauté onion in 2 tablespoons bacon grease with bay leaf until soft.
Step 4
Add all other ingredients and bring to a boil; add water as needed.
Step 5
Cover and simmer for 60 minutes.
Step 6
Remove bay leaf and clove and season to taste.
Step 7
Crumble bacon on top.
Tips
No special items needed.