Name: Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup with Sausage
Ingredients: 3 cups dried split peas--green or yellow; 2 quarts water; 8 ounces bulk breakfast sausage; 2 slices bacon-chopped; 3 large carrots; 2 stalks of celery; 2 teaspoons dried Italian herbs; 1 teaspoon garlic granules; dash cinnamon; dash dash of nutmeg; pinch of pepper; salt (to taste)

Cozy up with this easy, budget-friendly Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup with Sausage! A hearty, satisfying meal perfect for busy days.

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Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup with Sausage

Looking for a budget-friendly slow cooker soup to warm you to the toes? This Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup with Sausage is delicious AND low cost AND easy to make. Perfect for those days you just can’t do it all. So basically every day for me.

Slow Cooker Soup

Anytime is the perfect time to pull out the slow cooker (crock pot ALWAYS!) and make soup. Today it almost snowed or at least I THOUGHT it was going to snow and to me that means soup. We’re making one last run to get this remodel done so I knew it had to be a slow cooker soup that required little to no actual cooking. I set the peas to cook at noon and left them until 4 pm when I fried up some sausage, carrots, and celery to add to the pot. The soup was thick, full of sausage and vegetables and really hit the spot. Alas, we got no snow but we did get soup.

Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup with Sausage

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Cozy up with this easy, budget-friendly Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup with Sausage! A hearty, satisfying meal perfect for busy days.

Course: Slow Cooker

Cuisine: Alaskan

Servings: servings

Calories: 468kcal

Author: Laura

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Ingredients

3 cups dried split peas--green or yellow
2 quarts water
8 ounces bulk breakfast sausage
2 slices bacon-chopped
3 large carrots
2 stalks of celery
2 teaspoons dried Italian herbs
1 teaspoon garlic granules
dash cinnamon
dash dash of nutmeg
pinch of pepper
salt to taste

Instructions

wash and pick over your peas
pour them in the slow cooker and pour the water on the top
cover and cook on high 4 hours or low for around 6--all slow cookers are different
when peas are cooked through, about 4 hours later brown the bulk sausage and bacon in a frying pan
clean and chop the carrots and celery and add them to the pan
cook and stir until the sausage is cooked through
deglaze the pan with ½ cup of water or so and scrape up all the great browned bits
pour all the sausage mix in the slow cooker and stir to combine
add the rest of the ingredients except the salt and cook for another hour or so
taste for salt after about ½ hour or so and salt as needed to taste

Nutrition

Remember all slow cookers cook at different speeds and temperatures so you might want to make this on a weekend until you figure out exactly how it works in your slow cooker.