Let’s Get Started!

Ingredients Needed

• 6 cups of veggie broth
• 1 Tbsp. liquid smoke
• A pinch of celery salt
• ½ tsp garlic powder
• 2 cups yellow split peas, rinsed and drained
• 1 large Yukon gold potato, diced
• 3 carrots diced
• 2 big handfuls of kale, the tough stems removed and chopped into bite-sized pieces
• ½ tsp fresh chopped thyme
• Black pepper to taste

Directions

1. Add broth, celery salt, liquid smoke, split peas, garlic powder, potato and carrot to a large soup pan and let boil for ten minutes.
2. Bring down to a simmer, add thyme and cook for another r30 minutes and give it a good stir to help break up the split peas into kind of a mushy consistency.
3. Add kale, stir through and cover.
4. Cook for another 5 minutes, taste for seasoning and add pepper.

Benefits

Kale is great for opening blood vessels. Split peas have plenty of fiber and can lower cholesterol and blood sugar.