Baton Twirling's Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup

Total Time: 10 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• reserved juices, from cottage roll or any kind stock or water
• 1 1/2 cups split peas or 1 1/2 cups yellow split peas, washed,picked over
• 3 medium carrots, diced
• 2 stalks celery, diced
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• diced cottage roll (optional)
• salt and pepper

Recipe

• 1 remove congealed surface fat from cooking liquid and discard.
• 2 if you don't have cooking liquid from baton twirling's slow cooker cottage roll recipe, leave it out and substitute any kind of stock or water.
• 3 while chopping vegetables, heat liquid in saucepan or microwave a few minutes until warm.
• 4 pour liquid into slow cooker along with peas, carrots, celery, onion, thyme and pepper.
• 5 add cooking liquid or any kind of stock or water to within 2 inches of top of slow cooker.
• 6 stir, cover and cook on low setting 10 to 12 hours or until peas and vegetables are soft.
• 7 in food processor or blender, purée soup in batches until smooth.
• 8 if necessary, return to slow cooker to heat to serving temperature (or on stove in saucepan or in microwave).
• 9 add diced cottage roll, if using, to soup before heating.
• 10 season to taste with salt and pepper.