5 Minute Split Pea Soup Recipe |Vegan | WFPB | Instant Pot |

 I love my Instant Pot. I have to say that it is now perhaps my second favourite appliance, next to the Vitamix of course. I love the fact that it does so many things. It's a slow cooker, yogurt maker, a pressure cooker and just a regular saucepan. I use the IP more often than the stove these days and the reason I do, may or may not be because I can see the TV when cooking. 😇

This recipe is a total winner. I found a non-vegan recipe for split pea and ham soup and basically just veganised it by substituting the ham and ham bone for liquid smoke and really making sure there is a lot of flavour with spices and stock. I have made it 4 times in one week and Seb loves it. There are some recipe notes at the bottom, so make sure you check them out to save even more time. No Instant Pot? No worries. Regular stove top instructions available.

Ingredients
1 large onion chopped
3 large carrots diced
3 stalks of celery chopped
2 cups of split peas 
4 cloves garlic
6 cups of water or vegetable stock
3 bay leaves
1 tsp of salt
1 tsp of pepper
1/4 cup of nutritional yeast
1 tsp liquid smoke

Method
Add the carrot, celery and onion, stock, split peas, garlic and bay leaves to the Instant Pot. Using the manual setting, set at high pressure for 5 minutes. It doesn't matter if you use a quick release or natural release. Take out any bay leaves. Stir in the nutritional yeast and the liquid smoke. Serve as is or add some sour cream and herbs on top. 

Recipe notes:

• You can use green or yellow split peas or a mixture of. Green is more traditional, but I can't actually taste the difference.
• You can use 2 tsp smoked paprika instead of liquid smoke. 
• If you are going to blend the soup make sure you take out the bayleaves. Also, you don't actually need to chop up any of the vegetables. Any vegetables can easily be blended up and that can really take the prep of this dish down to 15 minutes!
• This recipe also freezes well and is idea for meal prepping.
  
• If you don't have an Instant Pot or pressure cooker, you can add another 2 cups of water, bring to the boil and then simmer for 1.5 hours stirring occasionally especially at the end of cooking time.