Instant Pot Split Pea Soup

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 leftover turkey, chicken or ham bone (optional)
• 1 yellow onion, diced
• 2 celery stalks, chopped
• 2 carrots, chopped
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 sprigs fresh thyme

  or 1/2 tsp dried
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 tsp paprika
• 1/2 tsp each salt & pepper
• 2 cups green or yellow split peas
• 6 cups chicken or vegetable broth
• sauteed ham or bacon
• scallions

Instructions

• 1 Add all ingredients to Instant Pot in the order in which they are listed except
  for garnishes, using vegetable broth and leaving out the ham bone if making the
  soup vegan.
• 2 Place lid on Instant Pot and make sure valve is set to seal. Press the pressure
  cook button and set to high, then cook for 5 minutes. Instant Pot will take
  about 5-10 minutes to come to pressure then pressure cook for 5 minutes.
• 3 While soup is cooking in the Instant Pot, cook and prepare ham/bacon and chop
  scallions if using as toppings.
• 4 Do a quick release of the pressure on the Instant Pot by flicking the switch at
  the top with a spoon. Open the lid when pressure gauge has dropped and the lid
  opens easily.
• 5 Remove ham bone if you addded it, and bay leaves. Blend about half the soup with
  an immersion blender, leaving the other half chunky. Garnish with toppings of
  choice, then serve and enjoy!

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