Recipe of Favorite Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup

Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup. Ham bone from Riesling-Peach Glazed Ham; Ham cut into chunks; Carrots; Celery; Green onions; Lentils; White beans; Diced tomatoes; Garlic salt; Onion salt; Ground cumin; Bay leaves; Thyme; Red pepper flakes; Salt & pepper; While there are many different varieties of lentils. The kind that I use most often in this ham soup recipe is brown lentils. In a Dutch oven, bring ham bone and water to a boil.

Heat oil in large soup pot. Put your leftover ham to work and make it on the stove, in a pressure cooker, or in your crockpot! The tender lentils and hearty cubes of leftover ham are filling enough that the men in the family will love it.

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Ham bone from Riesling-Peach Glazed Ham; Ham cut into chunks; Carrots; Celery; Green onions; Lentils; White beans; Diced tomatoes; Garlic salt; Onion salt; Ground cumin; Bay leaves; Thyme; Red pepper flakes; Salt & pepper; While there are many different varieties of lentils. The kind that I use most often in this ham soup recipe is brown lentils. In a Dutch oven, bring ham bone and water to a boil.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have leftover ham and lentil soup using 30 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Composition for Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup:

1. Require of Base.
2. Require of Hunk of butter (or oil).
3. Provide 1 onion, diced.
4. Provide 3 cloves of garlic.
5. Need 3 - carrots.
6. Provide 1 tsp for flour.
7. Require Splash wine.
8. Need 1 cup stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work).
9. You need Bouquet Garni (herb bundle).
10. Give for Cheesecloth.
11. You need for Butcher’s twine.
12. Give 1 cinnamon stick.
13. Provide 2 of bay leaves, broken.
14. Require 2 of allspice.
15. Prepare 2 for star anise.
16. You need 4 of cloves.
17. Prepare 1/2 tsp black peppercorns.
18. Require 1/2 tsp fenugreek.
19. Give 1 for dried chili pepper.
20. Need 1 tsp - thyme.
21. Provide The Soup.
22. Need 1 cup - dry lentils (green or yellow).
23. Give 1 Tupperware of leftover roasted ham, diced.
24. Give 1/2 tsp cumin (optional).
25. Prepare 1/2 tsp garam masala (optional).
26. Need for Salt and pepper.
27. Need for Garnish.
28. Prepare for Chopped fresh cilantro.
29. Need - Sour cream.
30. Give for Croutons.

Serve Crock Pot Ham and Lentils Soup with, homemade biscuits, a loaf of homemade Italian bread. Or make this easy No-Knead Garlic Rosemary Bread and spread it with butter before sopping up the thick broth. In a soup pot, sauté onion and garlic. Add the rest of the ingredients (per recipe below).

Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup process:

1. Cook your lentils. Wash dry lentils thoroughly (all sorts of weird stuff turns up in dry lentils, I found a piece of wood in mine). Add to a large pot of boiling water, boil for half an hour and drain, reserving water..
2. Make your herb bundle. Double layer a square of cheesecloth. Lay all the things you don’t want to chew in the middle. Bundle it up, tying with butcher’s twine. Do not make my mistake and include veggie stalks - I thought it would be an easy way to impart more flavour, but forgot they would expand and stretch out the cheesecloth..
3. Make your base. Melt some butter; sauté onions, carrots, etc. until soft. Add the herb bundle, push it around for a bit, then toss it in the soup pot. Add minced garlic, cooking briefly. Add flour and cook until nutty. Splash in the wine, scraping the bottom of the pan to get the good bits while letting the alcohol evaporate. Slowly incorporate stock..
4. Amass the soup! Add your delicious veggie mixture to a crock pot or large soup pot. Add the cooked lentils. Add the reserved lentil water until everything looks a bit too runny. Add cumin and garam masala, if using, and salt and pepper. Cook on low for as long as you’ve got (1-3h) on low heat..
5. Get some texture. Dig out the herb bundle and 2 cups of soup. Purée the rest with a hand blender. Return veggies. Fry ham (with basting sauce, if you still have it) and add..
6. Garnish and serve!.

Simmer until lentils are soft, but still, hold their shape (don't overcook or you'll lose the broth and your soup will turn into a thick mush). Turn off heat and remove ham bone from soup. Cut ham from the bone, cube the meat, and return meat to soup, discarding the bone. The hearty soup includes carrots, celery, and onions, along with basic seasonings. A leftover meaty ham bone or ham hock flavors this tasty lentil soup.

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