Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup
Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lentil soup on its own can seem bland and boring. But, add in some delicious veggies and leftover ham chunks, and you've got yourself an irresistible soup that every member of your family will love! Whenever we cook up a ham for dinner, we use this amazing Riesling Peach Glazed Ham recipe. Lentil Soup is definitely a classic dish in our home.

Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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 cook that.

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

Hearty and filling, it gets flavor and texture from carrots, celery, and onions, while meaty cubes of leftover ham or ham hock add a smoky profile. This particular soup is really an alternative to split pea soup using green lentils instead. It is a terrific soup to make using the leftovers from a bone-in baked ham dinner. Remove ham bone and add the lentils and diced ham.

Steps to make Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup:
  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!

It is a terrific soup to make using the leftovers from a bone-in baked ham dinner. Remove ham bone and add the lentils and diced ham. One of the reasons we love serving ham for Easter is the leftover ham, especially the ham bone. That bone can be used to make a flavorful stock for split pea or white bean soup , helping to stretch out that ham for days. Another great pairing with ham is lentils.

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