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We love Split Pea Soup and it’s so easy to make in the Crockpot!
This healthy, heartwarming soup is great for dinner but it freezes and reheats well for meals all week long.
A Creamy Hearty Soup
- Kids young and old alike love the creamy, velvety texture of split pea soup, it’s the ultimate comfort food!
- If you have a leftover hambone, it can be added to the soup and it will flavor the broth.
- Any split peas will work but I do love to use Hurst’s HamPeas because it has an extra flavor packet which is great in this recipe.
- This hearty soup is a great meal alongside 30 Minute Dinner Rolls and a fresh salad.
- Crockpots are the ultimate set-it-and-forget-it way to make delicious recipes with little to no prep or clean-up!
Ingredients
SPLIT PEAS: Split green peas give this soup its signature color, texture, and flavor, plus they are high in fiber and protein. You can find them next to the dried beans in your grocery store.
Yellow split peas will work (AKA Canadian Pea Soup), as well as a combination of split peas and lentils. Be sure they are rinsed from small pieces of debris before using.
VEGETABLES: Onions, carrots, and celery are the traditional ingredients for split pea soup, but diced potatoes, sweet potatoes, even frozen veggies like green peas, spinach, cauliflower, or broccoli can be added to the soup. Purée cooked veggies for a thicker soup.
MEAT: Add a leftover hambone, ham hock, or cubes of ham, even smoked turkey can be added.
How to Make Crockpot Split Pea Soup
This Crockpot recipe is as easy as 1, 2, 3:
- Rinse & drain split peas.
- Place in a Crockpot along with the remaining ingredients.
- Cook on high or low (per the recipe below) until thickened and creamy.
Tips
- If cooking for 4 hours on high in the Crockpot, soak peas overnight in clean water. Drain & rinse before using.
- For a different cooking method, try making Instant Pot Split Pea Soup or this stovetop version.
- No need to soak the green peas if they are slow cooking for more than 4 hours!
- For best results, keep the bone or ham hock in until the soup is finished.
- Thin split pea soup by stirring in extra chicken broth, and to thicken it allow it to cook with the lid off for about 1 hour.
Leftovers
Leftover split pea soup tastes better the next day! Keep it in a covered container in the refrigerator and it will last for about 5 days. Freeze green pea split soup in individual quart-sized bags or in gallon-sized bags with the date labeled on the outside. Frozen split pea soup will last about 3 months in the freezer.
Warming Soup Recipes
- Italian Sausage Soup – spicy goodness
- Chicken Gnocchi Soup – comfort in a bowl
- Creamy Potato Bacon Soup – rich & satisfying
- Broccoli Cheddar Soup – vegetarian fave
- Creamy Tortellini Soup – velvety broth
Did you love this Crockpot Split Pea Soup? Be sure to leave a rating and a comment below!
Crockpot Split Pea Soup
Equipment
Ingredients
- 20 ounces dried split peas green or yellow, *see note
- 5 cups chicken broth
- 2 cups water *see note
- 1 meaty ham bone or 2 cups leftover ham
- 3 ribs celery diced
- 2 large carrots diced
- 1 large onion diced
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 bay leaf
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
Instructions
- Rinse peas and drain well.
- Combine all ingredients except parsley in a 6qt slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on high for 4-5 hours* or on low 8 hours.
- Discard bay leaf. Stir in parsley and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Notes
- If cooking for 4 hours on high in the Crockpot, soak peas overnight in clean water. Drain & rinse before using.
- I use Hurst HamPeas Split Peas in this recipe which comes in a 20 oz package. If using a different brand, check the package size. If it contains only 16 oz (1 pound), do not add the additional 2 cups of water.
- Reduce the liquid slightly for a thicker soup.
- No need to soak the green peas if they are slow cooking for more than 4 hours!
- For best results, keep the bone or ham hock in until the soup is finished.
- The peas will break down and naturally thicken the soup.
- Thin split pea soup by stirring in extra chicken broth, and to thicken it allow it to cook with the lid off for about 1 hour.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Dinner, Entree, Lunch, Main Course, Slow Cooker, Soup
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This was amazing. I had a ham bone left over from the holiday. The flavor was incredible. The consistency was perfect. I would definitely make this again.
Excellent recipe, which I generally follows as written. I did use both the ham bone and 4 cups of cubed ham, because I wanted a meatier soup, and I had a fair amount of ham that I wanted to get out of my freezer. Plus the ham bone provided a great flavor boost that you do not get with ham alone. I used dried parsley vs fresh parsley, since that is what I had on hand. I also added 1/2 tsp of smoked paprika and rosemary. I also added an extra clove of garlic due to my fondness for garlic. Finally I added a pkg of baby golden potatoes, which I cut in half or quarters, depending on the size, again simply to use them up before they went bad. I will say that this is the first time making this soup that I dispensed with the Hurst flavor packet that comes in the package, and I am glad that I did. Great, great, great recipe.
Just the best pea soup I have ever had,,,,,really good!
How much is a serving size?
A serving is about a cup and a half.
soaked split peas overnight put ingredients in slow cooker at 8 AM . 12:30 am peas are still intact and still rather hard. I pretty much knew that 4 hr on high after soaking would not be enough. Maybe 8 maybe 12 hours. that is often the case will slow cooker pea or bean soup
I’m planning to make this in a couple days for a family dinner and definitely want to add potatoes. Can anyone who has done so tell me if I ought to add extra broth from the get go? I want to be sure there is enough liquid for the peas to absorb. Thanks!
I’ve only tried this as written so I can’t say for sure. Let us know how it works out for you!
Great recipe, just what I was looking for.
WOW! I made this recipe and I think this is the best pea soup I’ve ever made. I switched out chicken broth for bone broth and added extra ham (‘cuz, why not?!) Thanks for the recipe. It’s going in my favorites.
Very tasty but the 2 times I’ve made this recipe it turned brown and not green like I think pea soup should be. What could I be doing wrong.
It could be the variety of peas you’re using.
I’m using Goya split peas
Holly, you’re my ‘go to girl’ for everything I cook! My family and I love all of your recipes!!!! I’ve made sooooo many of them and tomorrow’s a perfect, frigid day for your fabulous pea soup again, (by request from hubby and son!) For the love of food, thankyou for making me a better cook!!!!!!!
Horrible recipe. Rinsed and drained split peas and cooked in crockpot for 5 hours. Peas were still hard. Never puréed into the split pea soup I was expecting. Disappointed.
Hi Glenn, as mentioned in the recipe card if cooking on high in the Crockpot, you will need to soak the peas overnight in clean water. Drain & rinse before using. I hope that helps!
Maybe you should follow the recipe and plug your crock pot in.
Well shame on me for not reading some comments BEFORE getting everything in the crockpot! I now see that the peas you use come with a seasoning packet. I had my own bag of peas that didn’t come with one, and I didn’t know that other brands may include one. So now what should I do? I just knew that it couldn’t be as easy as a couple of basic random spices and I should have trusted my gut and read some comments ahead of time. If you see this soon, do you have any recommendations on what to add to my now very basic tasting split pea soup?
It’s absolutely as easy as adding a few spices because a lot of the flavor comes from the ham/hambone. The seasoning packet is not needed for this recipe and most brands do not contain one, the recipe will be perfect as is without it. If you’d like you can certainly add a bouillon cube.
First time I ever made split pea soup and it was amazing! Thank you!
What if I already added the more than 5 cups of broth?
It should be fine. If you need to thicken it, allow it to cook with the lid off for about 1 hour.
Delicious! I followed the recipe (I never do that!) except I used half chicken bone broth and half vegetable broth and extra carrots and ham. I am going to share a tub of this soup with all my neighbors.
wow this is delicious!!
This is my go to ham & pea soup recipe… it always turns out delicious!
What a great recipe. I used a package of frozen mirepoix, and I didn’t have ham so I used two servings of ham flavoring. The flavor increases the longer it cooks. This one is definitely a keeper.
I made this today and it is AMAZING!!!! I made it as written, did not change a thing. Definitely in the soup rotation! Thank you for another super delicious recipe!!