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Leftover Ham Soup with Lentils Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup includes super yummy leftovers from the Riesling-Peach Glazed Ham and makes a hearty, healthy, and tasty dinner! It's of Hunk of butter (or oil). After a big holiday meal it is nice to have a quick and easy meal the next day so I cooked my leftover ham bone in the slow cooker with water, onion, and garlic overnight, then added the rest of the ingredients to slow cook through the day. Lentils, vegetables, spices, and herbs made a delicious meal.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have leftover ham and lentil soup using 30 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup:
- Prepare Base
- Take Hunk of butter (or oil)
- Make ready 1 onion, diced
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic
- Get 3 carrots
- Make ready 1 tsp flour
- Take Splash wine
- Get 1 cup stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work)
- Take Bouquet Garni (herb bundle)
- Take Cheesecloth
- Get Butcher’s twine
- Get 1 cinnamon stick
- Get 2 bay leaves, broken
- Take 2 allspice
- Take 2 star anise
- Make ready 4 cloves
- Make ready 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
- Take 1/2 tsp fenugreek
- Prepare 1 dried chili pepper
- Get 1 tsp thyme
- Get The Soup
- Take 1 cup dry lentils (green or yellow)
- Make ready 1 Tupperware of leftover roasted ham, diced
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cumin (optional)
- Take 1/2 tsp garam masala (optional)
- Get Salt and pepper
- Get Garnish
- Get Chopped fresh cilantro
- Prepare Sour cream
- Make ready Croutons
Add the reserved lentil water until everything looks a bit too runny. Add cumin and garam masala, if using, and salt and pepper. An Italian Lentil soup is healthy and hearty! My version is spicy and includes lots of garlic and leftover Easter ham.
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!
An Italian Lentil soup is healthy and hearty! My version is spicy and includes lots of garlic and leftover Easter ham. It melts in creating a bowl of heaven. Ham and lentil soup is great for lunch or as a comforting, warming snack. Whether you are using a ham hock or some leftover cooked ham, you can add that flavor to the lentil soup and be guaranteed that it will come out beautifully.
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