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Wolfgang Puck Recipe Contest Course Main Ingredient Cuisine Specialty Cooking |
The flavor of the smoked sausage is wonderful in this soup with garlic and cream.
1 and 1/2 hours 6 servings Ingredients 1 16 oz bag dried Split Peas 3 cups chicken stock 1/2 package Lil Smokies or generic smoked sausage about 7oz 1 shallot 2 cloves Garlic 1/4 red onion 2 tsp fresh thyme leaves 6 baby carrots 1 Seramo or Jalapeno pepper chopped and seeded 1 tsp celery salt Fresh ground black pepper to taste 1 bay leaf 1/2 cup heavy cream 2 tsp sherry if desired Fresh grated Parmesan or Romano cheese garnish Gardetto's Roasted Garlic Rye Crisps garnish - you can use your favorite croutons Directions 1. Wash split peas in strainer removing any sticks or bad peas 2. Place peas in heavy stock pot cover with chicken stock 3. Bring to a boil and reduce heat. 4. Cover and simmer for 1 hour or until soft 5. Chop Lil sausages into small bite size pieces 6. Saute in a stockpot for about 5 minutes over medium high heat You can move the peas and stock to another container and use the same pot for these steps. 7. Chop vegetables, onion, garlic, shallot, carrots, pepper 8. Saute with sausages until onion is soft 9. Deglaze with sherry if desired or spoon in some of the chicken stock 10. Pour in peas and stock and bring to a boil 11. Reduce heat and simmer for another 20 minutes 12. Add thyme leaves, celery salt and pepper 13. Stir in 1/2 cup cream 14. Taste and correct the seasoning with additional salt and pepper if needed 15. Serve garnished with grated cheese and Rye crisps
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