French Canadian Pea Soup Recipe - Celebration Generation

Jump to Recipe - This traditional French Canadian Pea soup is easy to make, feeds a CROWD - cheaply - is tasty, filling, and a great way to use up leftover ham! Originally published January 17, 2013. Updated on 3/6/2023Easter is around the corner, which means that HAM is around the corner... and leftover ham bone = split pea soup!I'm a huge fan of French-Canadian Pea Soup - or “soupe aux pois”. I loved it when I was a kid - especially when served at Festival du Voyageur activities in my hometown!.I loved it when I first moved out on my own, living on the cheap, and buying the canned Habitant pea soup like it was going out of style.When I was an expatriate Canadian in the United States ... I may have loved Habitant soup even more! Like many other “product of Canada” items, it was a great comfort food, in my time away.Unlike many of the other homeland foods I adore, this traditional dish is easily made, with almost all of the ingredients being available locally. My grandmother used to si...