How to Make Award-winning My Chunky Bacon Pea Soup. 'yummy'

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The ingredients needed to make My Chunky Bacon Pea Soup. 'yummy':

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

Instructions to make My Chunky Bacon Pea Soup. 'yummy':

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.

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