Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. How to make Ham and Lentil Soup in a Dutch oven on the stove: Heat olive oil in the Dutch oven over medium-high heat until shimmering.
Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must 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:
- Make ready Base
- Prepare Hunk of butter (or oil)
- Make ready 1 onion, diced
- Take 3 cloves garlic
- Prepare 3 carrots
- Take 1 tsp flour
- Make ready Splash wine
- Prepare 1 cup stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work)
- Prepare Bouquet Garni (herb bundle)
- Make ready Cheesecloth
- Prepare Butcher’s twine
- Get 1 cinnamon stick
- Make ready 2 bay leaves, broken
- Get 2 allspice
- Make ready 2 star anise
- Make ready 4 cloves
- Prepare 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
- Make ready 1/2 tsp fenugreek
- Prepare 1 dried chili pepper
- Get 1 tsp thyme
- Take The Soup
- Make ready 1 cup dry lentils (green or yellow)
- Get 1 Tupperware of leftover roasted ham, diced
- Take 1/2 tsp cumin (optional)
- Prepare 1/2 tsp garam masala (optional)
- Get Salt and pepper
- Prepare Garnish
- Make ready Chopped fresh cilantro
- Prepare Sour cream
- Make ready Croutons
Leftovers, favorites… add them all into the pot! Lentil soup will keep for up to four days. To freeze, transfer to freezer containers, leaving an inch of headspace for expansion. The soup will keep for up to four months.
Steps 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!
Ham bones can be used to either make a nice ham stock or you can just throw the bone right into any number of tasty soups and it adds a ton of flavour as simmers away. This time I was thinking that I don't use lentils often enough and that a ham and lentil soup would be really nice. An interesting and delicious twist on what seems like an an ordinary lentil soup. I made this with bacon instead of cooked ham, sautéing the bacon with the veggies and lentils at the beginning. Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat.
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