So I'm cooking for myself these days and I love split pea soup, I'm using my father's recipe which is just the packet above with some montrial seasoning. But I have some bacon from another recipe I made. I was wondering about cooking the bacon and adding it to the insta pot or more precisely, IF I ADD BACON AND PUT IT IN THE FRIDGE WILL THE BACON STAY GOOD I've been courting around the idea of putting sliced raw bacon in the pot before I cook it so the fat will drain right into the soup but I think it will be floppy and gross maybe? What's the best way to do this? Thank you for reading and please lend my your knowledge
by Ironyingot
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If it were me, I would cook the bacon normally and drain the grease, but add a little to the soup for flavor and then add the bacon in once the soup was almost done, if you want to keep it crispy keep it separate, however submerged in a liquid it’s likely to become more ham like. Either way you can’t go wrong flavor wise, it’s about your texture preference.
Would get better flavor if you stir fry the bacon with onions and garlic and then the other half in the pressure cooker. You would get both textures, ham and normal bacon.
If you ate steamed pork before with fat then thats pretty much how it will come out texture wise
Ham peas, ham peas!
They taste like ham and they look like peas!
Cook the bacon to your preferred crispness, reserve just enough bacon grease to saute your veggies (onion celery carrot etc) for the soup. Cooked bacon can absolutely be frozen, wrap in parchment paper and put in a ziploc. My family does this with bacon all the time when prepping food for the lake.
Then when you’re ready to make your soup, use the saved amount of bacon grease to sauté your soup base and proceed with your recipe as normal. The bacon can be reheated in the microwave from frozen with a paper towel covering it, the longer you microwave it the crispier it will be. Chop it up and add to the soup once it’s otherwise cooked and simmered!