Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup includes super yummy leftovers from the Riesling-Peach Glazed Ham and makes a hearty, healthy, and tasty dinner! In a Dutch oven, bring ham bone and water to a boil. To broth, add the lentils, tomatoes, carrots, celery, onions and seasonings; bring to a boil.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have leftover ham and lentil soup using 30 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup:
- Prepare Base
- Take Hunk of butter (or oil)
- Prepare 1 onion, diced
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic
- Prepare 3 carrots
- Get 1 tsp flour
- Get Splash wine
- Prepare 1 cup stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work)
- Make ready Bouquet Garni (herb bundle)
- Make ready Cheesecloth
- Make ready Butcher’s twine
- Take 1 cinnamon stick
- Take 2 bay leaves, broken
- Make ready 2 allspice
- Prepare 2 star anise
- Get 4 cloves
- Take 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
- Get 1/2 tsp fenugreek
- Take 1 dried chili pepper
- Get 1 tsp thyme
- Get The Soup
- Get 1 cup dry lentils (green or yellow)
- Make ready 1 Tupperware of leftover roasted ham, diced
- Make ready 1/2 tsp cumin (optional)
- Get 1/2 tsp garam masala (optional)
- Make ready Salt and pepper
- Get Garnish
- Prepare Chopped fresh cilantro
- Prepare Sour cream
- Make ready Croutons
It's of Hunk of butter (or oil). Lentil Soup with Ham has tender cooked lentils, vegetables, and salty chunks of ham that come together in a hearty, delicious soup! After the holidays, when ham is often on the menu, this Lentil Soup with Ham is a great recipe to cook with some of those leftovers. An Italian Lentil soup is healthy and hearty!
Instructions to make Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Garnish and serve!
My version is spicy and includes lots of garlic and leftover Easter ham. It melts in creating a bowl of heaven. The lentil soup by itself is delicious and filling, serving all the goodness of lentils in a bowl: high fiber, high protein, and high folate and iron . For meat lovers, add extra diced leftover ham, sliced smoked sausage, or diced cooked bacon in addition to or in place of the ham. A ham bone left over from a previous meal gets a second chance when simmered with lentils and vegetables to make a hearty soup in less than an hour.
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