3-Ingredient Dinners for One · Number 9

Split Pea and Ham Soup

  • Three ingredients
A spoon standing upright on its own in one modest bowl of thick split pea soup, no cream jug or flour anywhere on the table
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You need

Good to know: Sized for one; salt, pepper, oil and water are free.

What to do

  1. Rinse the peas.
  2. Into a big pot with the hock, the chopped onion and 8 cups cold water.
  3. Boil, then simmer, lid ajar, about 1½ hours, stirring so it doesn't catch.
  4. Pull the meat off the bone, chop it, stir it back in.

Adapted from a recipe by Gimme Some Oven.

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