Check out the recipe: www.allrecipes.com/Recipe/219170/Ham-and-Split-Pea-Soup-Recipe-A-Great-Soup/

It’s wild to have watched so many Chef John videos and never have seen one without the cayenne. It’s gotta be an oldie, right? I just had my mum send split peas across the globe for this. My Irish grandma was the only person I knew to cook it. I’ve never had it outside of our family. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do myself. I’m adding cayenne.

Wow Chef John!!! It's January 2022 and I can see that you've come a looooong way on your channel. We follow many of your recipes and love them, and you too, of course! ;-)

I have made this recipe at least a dozen time...deliciousness!!! Sometimes I alter it by cooking chopped bacon, draining excess fat and follow with the veg and rest of ingredients. I also add a little milk or cream in your individual bowl as you serve...heavenly...cheers!!!

I can't wait to try this! Just a friendly heads up: At 1:29, he says the one pound bag is about 3 cups. Actually a 16 oz. bag of Goya split peas is 2 cups. Not criticizing at all! I love Chef John and he has the best recipes. And it may not matter about the amount of peas anyway, but if you're stickler for detail, like me, get the 16 oz. bag, and that is 2 cups. Thumbs up! I'm trying this recipe today. :-) UPDATE: 1/2/20: I tried this last night and it was absolutely delicious!!!

City ham is a term used in some parts of the United States for any lightly cured and/or smoked ham which must be refrigerated to preserve it. It is generally "wet cured", that is injected with or soaked in a brine solution containing high concentrations of salts (including sodium chloride, sodium nitrate, and sodium nitrite). This is distinguished from country hams which are dry cured by being packed in crystalline curing salts and stored room temperature. In parts of the U.S. where country ham is not consumed, city hams are often the only available hams and are just called ham.

I don't think there's anything that looks so bad but tastes so good as pea soup.

Chef John from a decade ago, still good thanks for recipe

Me and my family absolutely loved the split pea soup recipe what an excellent simple meal with lots of flavor.

A ten year old classic? Every time I cook a ham for Easter or Christmas, I always save the meaty bone for split pea soup. I like to add carrots for sweetness and a healthy dose of white pepper for warmth.

Always great to see Chef John has a way to make what I’m searching to make!

Made it tonight on a snowy evening in Denver. Absolutely delicious! May have used a bit more than a pound of ham so I just added some more stock. Cooked up great. Thanks Chef!

Looking for a good recipe of this and came across a relic! Thank you always chef John ❤️

Hi chef John my mum was Polish and some recipes are just ... heavenly and tx for your brilliant sense of humour definitely my go to channel when I forget stuff. I am ... sort of vegan but over the years adding a bit of meat like a ham hock or happy eggs from happy chickens no sin at all. So nostalgia and my sense of ethics are quite happy now together. This version is great; actually got something very like from my best friend who lived in Quebec City; it was a weekend event beginning with homemade stock and his homemade bread. Wonderful memories, tx as always!

Brilliant! Love the simplicity of your recipe. The lovely anecdote about your dad was the icing on the cake. I'm trying your recipe tonight. I will add carrots, however. Thank you!

I just learned about lentils and now I wanted to learn about split peas... well this seems easy!!! got all the ingredients and will make it this week

I love your recipe and your sense of humor. I bought some split peas today and I plan to follow your recipe. Thanks for the video and thanks for the laughs 🙂

Made this(also love others of your especially the chicken Kiev!) it came out wonderful (like everything you’ve taught me lol) THANK YOU!!

You are the best chef thank you so much for this recipe

2021, wow how your voice and presentations, have changed over all these years, it is so nice to see in a time lap, anyhow love your videos over all these years

Loved your comment about your Dad. Thanks for the recipe also!

Omg best ever made today! Just added carrots too. We finished pot😋

We call it pea whack here in liverpool it will keep you warm on a cold night. We make it by the gallon and everyone gets some.

My grandmother used to eat cracker soup. Old depression era food.

So fun to look back here!!! Wonder if you have an updated one. Interesting to see the difference. I kinda like the casual you and still love the energetic you.

I so 💘 your sense of humor. With old age I have to remember to use the bathroom before I watch your channel. Thank you.

Wow Chef John, 14 years! Looking forward to this soup tonight and 14 more years!

My pea soup is simmering now, never made it before, I was out of lentils but had split peas. Happy New Year 2022

I had an accident while prepping the veggies, mine can be called Split pea and hand soup.

Just made this. Extremely simple to make and extremely GOOD. (I added a shallot just because it was there hiding with my garlic.)

Love your recipes thanks

this was by far the best laugh ive had all week! thank you chef x

This is a great recipe chef John simple and delicious

I just made it in a huge crock pot and call my sister she's just going to have to cook a long time that's fine with me and I bought some french bread that they actually making Michigan I'm from Michigan so I'll let you know how the soup turns out you have a wonderful wonderful show

Wow, this could be the first chef John video ever...

Love his earlier videos; this guy is a culinary champ 🧑‍🍳

Ill be making it tomorrow! Love me some split pea soup

Okay John I have only eaten one bowl of pea soup in my life …and that was from my grandmother…so I think I need to try your soup. Thanks for the recipe…you did make it look easy!

What?no pinch of cayenne? I totally did that with mine!🤨👍

wow a pre-2010 chef John video! can't wait to try this

Me too ! Love my crackers ! Ty for this recipe !!

Made this again with yellow peas and bacon. So good!

It’s hard to find, but I would recommend using ham stock instead of chicken stock. It brings out the ham flavor. Also, I use carrots. I’ve never had a split pea soup without carrots.

Making this with Canadian bacon, love your recipes!

Looks delicious!!!!

I will be making your recipe tonight. Thanks for sharing. BTW, my husband always crumbles crackers in every soup he eats. Haha!

I'm making this . I'm going to blend it though. My lady just had major surgery. Thanks John.

City ham is spam

Thank you 🙏

My mom makes great pea soup and also adds small cuts of potato during the simmering and cross sections of orange and dark carrots to add sweetness. You could simmer longer so the potato starch thickens the soup and they become "mashed potato" consistency. Next time I'll try seperately sauted then simmered onion slices to top off like French onion soup.

You can get a ham bone from honey-baked ham or heavenly ham if you have one in your area.

Nice soup. Thank you.

Gonna make some in a couple weeks. I'm going to throw some parm rinds in there as well for a little extra flavor

Looks so yummy! I'm making some tonight with the leftover ham from Easter. It's touching how you honor your father with the three crackers. Also, I was thinking...maybe vegetarian split pea soup is made with city ham😏

Haven't tasted city ham? Well yankee, lol, you just used city ham in this recipe. I can tell by the color and how easy you cut it. Country ham is much darker and dryer. I use smoked ham hocks in my recipe. But now I think I'll try country ham. I love your channel and watch it with salivating mouth a couple of times a week. Keep up the good work!

Needs a loaf of good, crusty bread to go with it!

I'm making this right now

Hi Chef John, I’m going to make your recipe today but I’m going to add some sauerkraut to it like mom used to do. It adds a little tang to the soup. Sometimes she made it with bacon instead of ham....have you ever tried that?

Do the color matter ?I have seen green ones and yellow ones which one do I use?

Delicious 😋

Country ham is salt cured. Therefore City ham must be sugar cured. Both are delicious in almost any soup. If smoked, even better. Thanks for the recipe Chef John.

I use smoke turkey leg. I don’t eat pork or beef and it comes out great.

City ham is the Tavern ham. Keep it up, you’re great at this stuff..ing

Chef John, you Father was in good company. I've heard that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a fanatic about crumbling crackers into any soup that he was served. I'm making you soup today.

You are right, why is there no city ham. Smiles, love your work chef, thanks for the giggle. As always I'm gonna make this and E N J O Y.

Dude you are a flavor lord!

I was taught to wash the peas and soak them overnight, u skipped that, but it didn’t seem to hurt the soup any,. I prefer the yellow split peas, just because my Mom did, they’re good. btw, try garlic croutons sometime if u like crackers in soup, not sure how they work in creamier soups, I only use them in moe watery soup broths like. Chicken Noodle even tho I’m a lousy cook, but you’re not! Thanks CJ !

I've made pea soup all my life (from the recipe on the bag), but decided to use your recipe after having other recent FoodWishes successes. Well, it was ah-mazing! I threw in the bone from our Honeybaked Christmas ham, too, and it really makes for a filling meal. Thank you! Happy New Year! PS my "wish" is for you to do a real book...all I could find was a Kindle version. Please??😀

In Quebec that's a cultural food. My grandfather couldn't cook, but he could make this. I got my culinary influence from my mom's Irish side. My French side crappy cooks

My mother used to make this with egg noodles and carrots slices in the soup

I love your father!

Try croutons! White & Pumpernickel if possible.

No cayenne pepper? Inside joke:) Love your channel, long time viewer.

Diced carrots taste great in split pea and ham soup...

"They should look like one of those bankers testifying before congress." 😂

There is such a thing as city chicken. Might be a cool recipe. Note how many people are commenting nearly twelve years later on split pea.

Mmmmmm split peas soup 🤤🤤🤤

Ham and Split Pea soup recipe is gone! Can't find it.😥. Yes, I went to the link.

hello from Vietnam

Hello Chef John, in Paris, France, there’s a city ham called, Jambon de Paris:-)

vintage food wishes

Chef John - let’s get a remake!

Covered or uncovered is my question

City ham got me lol!

Split pea and ham is one of my favorite soups but every time I think of it I can't help but remember the scene in The Exorcist.🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮😳😄

Can I use frozen peas?

Ad carrots and potatoes!

Add a bit of shredded carrot, adds a little sweetness. hmmm

City ham was a good one

Eat at a Waffle House and you can order ether City Ham or Country Ham. The southern restaurant chain advertises regular sliced ham as "city ham", and the salt cured country ham as "Country Ham" you are currently cooking with what we would call City Ham. Country ham would add texture, salt, and a notable flavor to split pea soup. an avid fan from the southern part of Georgia, USA.

Can I use canned ham as a substitute?

old chef john be like spongebob in that one episode where he turns normal and all his holes turn solid

Ya.How the city ham taste like??🤣🤣👍👍👍I put crutons on my s.p.soup

chef john, you need to update this recipe

The gas producer extrordinaire

It's raining, check. Cold, check. Ham hocks have disappeared and I cannot get mine from my brother in Toronto, rats, so not checked. I always do mine with carrots, bay leaf and of course cayenne. Tom One, Chef John 2020.

can you use bacon instead of country ham?

I feel like the corollary to "Why is there no city ham?" is "Why is there no whole pea soup?"

Where's the carrots...My Portuguese Grandmother put carrots in every soup she ever made...Both grand parents lived into their 90's and credit for their long lives to their love of soups!, and Bacalao, Chorizo, spaghetti sauce, Bulla bread (bread made with bacon, chorizo and ham...YUM YUM!) Great food makes for a great life!

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