Grammy's Kitchen · Potato Soup · Split Pea, Bacon & Potato Soup
One of 78 potato soup recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
47 cooks on www.budgetbytes.com rate it 4.7★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 78.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 169% | 149% |
| dairy | 0% | 35% |
| fat | 0% | 3% |
| aromatics | 14% | 16% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| protein add | 15% | 17% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 170 g | 6 oz bacon ($1.68) |
| 150 g | 1 yellow onion (medium, $0.47) |
| 6 g | 2 cloves garlic ($0.16) |
| 454 g | 1 lb split peas ($1.48) |
| 1920 g | 8 cups chicken broth ($1.04) |
| 1 g | 1 whole bay leaf ($0.15) |
| pepper (freshly cracked, $0.05) | |
| 680 g | 1 1/2 lbs potatoes ($1.44) |
| 3 g | 1/2 tsp salt ($0.02) |
Method: 6 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Just made this with added mushrooms I needed to use. I diced them up with the onions and I think it works. Some "meatiness" without adding extra meat. Came out outstanding! Oh, and I didn't have chicken stock, so I needed some cans of chicken noodle soup and a” — a cook, 5.0★
“Apparently I'm the only one, but I did not love this recipe and won't make it again. I feel like the potato made a pea soup that was earthy and flat, and not in a good way. I felt it could use more spices--marjoram? It's in my other split pea soup recipe. This” — a cook, 2.0★