This soup is a satisfying delicious meal very high in fiber. A perfect soup on a cold evening and only 3.5 weight watchers points!
Great Low Point Recipe courtesy Katia
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings 6 servings • Time 2 hours • Points: 3.5 ww points
- 1 bag of dried split peas
- 1 chopped onion
- 1 garlic clove or more if you like more garlic, use 2-3 cloves of garlic
- 8 cups fat-free chicken stock
- 2 tsp of olive oil
- 2 carrots - chopped
- Salt and Pepper, to taste
- 1 Ham Hock
Add peas, carrots, ham hock and your chicken stock, then cover the pot and let it come to a boil. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Once it boils you can reduce heat and cook for about two hours (beans should be very soft by then). Make sure to check the water and consistency. You may need to add hot water if it becomes too thick.
Serve with 1/2 slice of ww toasted bread. (Extra pts) Print this recipe
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This is the most appropriate soup to eat when it's freezing outside. Here in The Netherlands it's a custom for decades to eat this soup after riding iceskate outside. This soup brings warmth to you.
Thank you for posting!
What size bag of split peas do you use? I bought them in bulk and don't want to mess it up! Thanks!
It's 1 lb or 16 oz.
We'll be doing a nice split pea and ham recipe soon. Hope we can keep it low cal. :)
Gina--2 questions about this recipe. First--I'm not familiar with quarts as a unit of volume in recipes. Googled it and a quart is typically equally to about 1 L, or 4 cups of liquid. This soup only makes 6 servings, so clearly that's far too much liquid. Can you clarify? Second--I have never ever used pork hocks for anything--It's obviously used to flavour the broth here, but does it get eaten as well or just discarded? Thanks for clarifying--really love all the recipes you post!
it one place it says 2 pt (behind time it takes to make) and in other places it says 3.5?? So is it 2 or 3.5 ww points?? Thanks!
Sorry, it's 3.5 points. Thanks for noticing that!
Jennifer, you are right... 8 cups broth to 2 cups dried peas. Smoked ham hocks give it great flavor, you discard the bone when cooked.
This was sooooo easy and good! Thanks for the recipe. It was great!!! I couldnt find ham hocks so I used diced ham and added it when I sauted the onion and garlic and it still turned out great! Thanks
This is really good! I made the recipe on Sat. and froze some of the servings. I went to the store today to get another bag of peas so that I can freeze additional servings.
I like to know how much is in a serving when I make soups, or stews. Measuring out the servings from a batch of something is a real drag for me. I like to cook, and serve right out of the pot, and when in a hurry, I tend to put the entire pot in the fridge, and serve myself up a bowl at the end of a busy day. Can you give an idea on the amount/serving?
This makes about 7 cups total. So one serving is about 9.3 oz.
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