Pea & Ham Soup

65g salted butter

100g smoked bacon lardons

100g shallots (4 small shallots or 2 banana shallots), chopped

1 leek, white part only, chopped

1 garlic clove, bashed

1 litre ham stock

1kg frozen peas

Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

80g cooked and shredded ham hock meat

For the ham hocks

2 ham hocks

1 onion or 2 large shallots, quartered

2 carrots, roughly chopped 2 celery sticks, roughly chopped

1 whole garlic bulb, halved horizontally

2 bay leaves

1 sprig of fresh thyme

1 tsp black peppercorns