Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

It's of Hunk of butter (or oil). Now, throw those ham pieces from the bone back in the stock. Add the extra cut up ham, carrots, celery, green onion, diced tomatoes, lentils, and white beans into the soup. Serve in your favorite soup bowl and enjoy!

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

Prepare of Bouquet Garni (herb bundle. Instructions Put the ham bone, carrots, water, lentils, celery, onion, sugar, pepper, salt and bay leaf in a pot. Cover the pot and bring the soup to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer the soup for about an hour or until the lentils are tender.

Instructions 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!

Cover the pot and bring the soup to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer the soup for about an hour or until the lentils are tender. This is a quick and easy soup you can make with ham, lentils, onion, garlic and celery. The addition of red wine vinegar gives it a nice flavour boost. This is one of my family's go-to recipes for using leftover Christmas ham.

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