Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup
Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Lentil Soup is definitely a classic dish in our home. As a staple in Italian cuisine, and of the Cucina Povera, (poor man's food or peasant food) - lentils. I love Easter leftovers almost as much as the original meal- especially if we're talking about ham.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first 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. Get Hunk of butter (or oil)
  3. Make ready 1 onion, diced
  4. Get 3 cloves garlic
  5. Prepare 3 carrots
  6. Get 1 tsp flour
  7. Make ready Splash wine
  8. Take 1 cup stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work)
  9. Take Bouquet Garni (herb bundle)
  10. Get Cheesecloth
  11. Get Butcher’s twine
  12. Get 1 cinnamon stick
  13. Take 2 bay leaves, broken
  14. Take 2 allspice
  15. Prepare 2 star anise
  16. Take 4 cloves
  17. Get 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
  18. Take 1/2 tsp fenugreek
  19. Make ready 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. Take 1/2 tsp cumin (optional)
  25. Get 1/2 tsp garam masala (optional)
  26. Prepare Salt and pepper
  27. Take Garnish
  28. Prepare Chopped fresh cilantro
  29. Get Sour cream
  30. Take Croutons

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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!

Ham and Lentil Soup - from Andrea Meyers. Colombian Lentils and Pork Stew - from My Colombian Recipes. Cured Pork Shoulder and Lentils - from Chocolate and Zucchini. I also add rice (any kind, but the short sweet brown rice is great) or barley. This easy slow cooker soup recipe is an ideal way to use up leftover ham from a big holiday meal.

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