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My Chunky Bacon Pea Soup. 'yummy'.

You can have My Chunky Bacon Pea Soup. 'yummy' using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of My Chunky Bacon Pea Soup. 'yummy'

1. Prepare 1200 grams of Thick Bacon Bits or Gammon, cut into big bite size pieces.
2. Prepare 5 of medium Carrots Chopped.
3. You need 1 of medium onion, chopped small.
4. It's 200 grams of yellow dried split Peas.
5. You need 100 grams of Red lentils.
6. You need 1 tsp of Black pepper.
7. You need 1/2 cup of Double cream, if needed to thicken.
8. Prepare tsp of salt.

My Chunky Bacon Pea Soup. 'yummy' step by step

1. Cut up the bacon and leave a little fat on it, for taste, discard the rest you cut up..
2. Soak the bacon or gammon for 1/2 an hour in cold water rinse the bacon two times. Then add to a large saucepan.
3. Soak the split peas and red lentils together for the same time, then rinse these too in cold water.
4. Add the bacon to a large saucepan along with the lentils and split peas..
5. Chop up onion and carrots. Works out to 1 1/2 cups of chopped carrot, 1 cup of onion..
6. Add the cold water on top of the mix and it should be 1 1/2 inch clear of the lentil mix.
7. Put on high heat and cover bring to the boil stirring occasionally, boil for 10 minutes then strain all the water off to get rid of excess salt..
8. Add the same amount of water (boiling water) to the same pan of soup mix and bring to the boil. Add the black pepper.
9. Add the chopped carrots and onion and when boiling turn down uncover and leave to simmer for 1 - 2 hours. Stirring occasionally..
10. At the end of the 2 hours stir it, then leave it to cool. When cooled and just leave it for a couple of hours, you can refrigerate for the following day and you can freeze too..
11. When you are ready to dish it out, heat through and it should be thick and the bacon all tender, you can add 1/2 cup of double cream if you want it thicker stir and serve piping hot with lovely crusty bread rolls and sprinkles of extra black pepper on top..