Pea and Ham Soup

Name: Pea and Ham Soup
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Scottish
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; 500 g frozen petit pois; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 onion, chopped; 1 medium potato, peeled and diced; 1 small ham shank; 1 tbsp olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

About

A comforting winter warmer, pea and ham soup is a classic for a reason. This version uses petit pois which really lighten the flavour.

Ingredients

1 small ham shank
1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, chopped
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United Kingdom
Scotland
Gluten-free
Soup
Winter

Method

Put the ham shank in a pot and cover with 2 litres of cold water. Bring to the boil, then simmer gently over a medium-low heat for 1 hour 30 minutes, until the ham is cooked.
Remove the shank and set aside until it is cool enough to handle, reserving the cooking liquid as this will be the stock for the soup. Take the ham off the bone and shred into small pieces