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French Canadian Split Pea Soup Instant Pot

A very quick and easy recipe to make this delicious soup in your Instant Pot
Course Soup
Cuisine Canadian
Keyword instant pot, pork, soup

Equipment

  • Instant Pot

Ingredients

  • 2 cups dried Yellow (or Green) Split Peas
  • 2 cups diced Pork Cottage Roll meat ( or Diced ham, or even some chopped up bacon works)
  • 3 medium carrots, sliced
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 2 stalks celery, sliced
  • 1 tsp thyme
  • 1 tsp savory
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 6 cups leftover Pork Cottage Roll Broth
  • salt & pepper to taste
  • parsley garnish if desired

If not using Pork Cottage Roll Broth

  • 2 cups water (not needed if using leftover broth)
  • 4 cups chicken broth (not needed if using leftover broth)

Instructions

  • Wash all vegetables and chop them into pieces.
  • If you are using the leftover Pork Cottage Roll broth, simply add all ingredients into the Instant pot broth except water and additional broth.
  • If you are starting from scratch add water and chicken broth into the Instant pot, then add all additional ingredients
  • Cover Instant Pot and set to - Manual - High Pressure and 15 minutes. Let it Cook.
  • Allow it to natural release when it is finished. About 15 more minutes. Open lid.
  • Remove bay leaf. If you used ham bone, remove that too.
  • If the split peas are still quite crunchy after cooking, add a tsp of Baking Soda. As mentioned above this can happen for a number of reasons.
    Re-cover Instant Pot set to - Manual - High Pressure and 5 minutes. This may take a while to get to pressure because of the large amount of liquid.
    Repeat until desired texture of peas is achieved.
  • The soup will be pretty thick and chunky. You can use a potato masher to smash all the vegetables if you want a thinner version. You also can CAREFULLY put the very hot liquid in a blender or use an immersion blender to mix it up. WARNING AGAIN... the soup is VERY HOT and it is very easy to splash it everywhere. I generally use the potato masher if I am doing this. The soup is just as great when it is thick and chunky though.
  • Add salt and pepper to taste. Salt will probably not be needed as the pork broth usually gets quite salty.
  • Garnish with parsley if desired.