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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook 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:
- Make ready Base
- Take Hunk of butter (or oil)
- Get 1 onion, diced
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic
- Get 3 carrots
- Take 1 tsp flour
- Make ready Splash wine
- Get 1 cup stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work)
- Prepare Bouquet Garni (herb bundle)
- Get Cheesecloth
- Take Butcher’s twine
- Make ready 1 cinnamon stick
- Make ready 2 bay leaves, broken
- Make ready 2 allspice
- Get 2 star anise
- Make ready 4 cloves
- Get 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
- Make ready 1/2 tsp fenugreek
- Take 1 dried chili pepper
- Take 1 tsp thyme
- Prepare The Soup
- Prepare 1 cup dry lentils (green or yellow)
- Make ready 1 Tupperware of leftover roasted ham, diced
- Take 1/2 tsp cumin (optional)
- Prepare 1/2 tsp garam masala (optional)
- Make ready Salt and pepper
- Make ready Garnish
- Get Chopped fresh cilantro
- Prepare Sour cream
- Prepare Croutons
Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. A ham bone left over from a previous meal gets a second chance when simmered with lentils and vegetables to make a hearty soup in less than an hour. 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.
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!
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. Take out the ham bone or hock and remove the meat. Directions In a Dutch oven, bring ham bone and water to a boil.
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