Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup

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To begin with this 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 can achieve that.

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

The ingredients needed to cook Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup: Take of Base. Take of Hunk of butter (or oil). Provide of stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work). Prepare of Bouquet Garni (herb bundle.

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!

Provide of stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work). 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.

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