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My Ham Shank Soup (Thick pea soup).

You can have My Ham Shank Soup (Thick pea soup) using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of My Ham Shank Soup (Thick pea soup)

1. You need 4 of large carrots scraped and cut into chunky slices.
2. You need 250 g of Yellow Split Peas.
3. Prepare of About 800g Ham Shank.
4. You need of Boil in 2 1/2 Pints water.
5. You need of Add a little black pepper.

My Ham Shank Soup (Thick pea soup) instructions

1. Rinse the split yellow peas under cold water for a few minutes. Add the shank to boiling water and cook for 30 minutes, take out and take all the fat off it will come away easy then..
2. Scrape and slice the carrots chunky. Add the split peas to the ham shank water with the shank when fat and skin removed. Simmer for about an hour then check if the meat comes off. If not leave for another hour for the split peas to be cooked..
3. Fat and skin taken off. Add it back to the water with the split peas and carrots. Leave to simmer away for about an hour then check if the meat falls off the bone..
4. Meat falling off the bone. When you take the bone out and grissle. Let it boil a little longer then some fat will float on top and you can scoop it off..
5. After simmering. Turn off and leave for about an hour before serving as it goes thicker. Next day its the best. Cooked turn off and leave and it will be much thicker and meat falling to bits. So tasty. You can freeze this soup too..