The great thing about this soup is that when everyone else in your household may be eating a big dinner, this soup is so delicious and hearty that you won't feel like you are missing out! There's no reason why everyone couldn't have this for their dinner too! It's great for a non fasting lunch as well.
Italian style Pea and Ham Soup - approx. 226 calories for a 2 cup serving
You will need a 6ltr slow cooker
Start this soup on the morning that you are planning to have it for dinner
1 smoked ham hoc (the one I used weighed 1.3kg before cooking)
300g celery (sliced)
200g carrot (diced or sliced into rounds)
1 large onion (diced)
375g Mc Kenzie's Italian style soup mix (dried beans and split peas)
Fresh cracked pepper (no salt as there's enough in the ham)
3 ltr water
Place all the ingredients in a 6 ltr slow cooker and cook on the low setting for approx. 8 hours
This soup can also be started the night before and cooked overnight.
Carefully take the whole ham hoc out of the liquid
Remove all the visible fat and bones
You should have about 450g ham meat (cut into small chunks)
return the 450g ham back into the soup, and stir
Serve soup with a sprig of parsley
Enjoy!
This is a 2 cup serving - 226 calories
A 1 cup serving is approx. 113 calories
Freeze the rest of the soup in either 2 or 1 cup lots, label each box so you can see how many calories you are having at a glance, its a great time saver.
When you put the effort in to make these soups, you save time on other days when you're too busy to try to think about what to eat or cook!
The calorie count is an approximation and can't be exact, but my theory is that if you are trying to be honest about everything you put in your mouth, and you take any fat that you can see off the ham, it's the best you can do. I have used the calorie counter function on myfitnesspal to work out how many calories this recipe has per cup.
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