Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really 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 begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
- Get Base
- Make ready Hunk of butter (or oil)
- Get 1 onion, diced
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic
- Make ready 3 carrots
- Prepare 1 tsp flour
- Get 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
- Get 1 dried chili pepper
- Prepare 1 tsp thyme
- Make ready The Soup
- Take 1 cup dry lentils (green or yellow)
- Take 1 Tupperware of leftover roasted ham, diced
- Get 1/2 tsp cumin (optional)
- Prepare 1/2 tsp garam masala (optional)
- Make ready Salt and pepper
- Take Garnish
- Prepare Chopped fresh cilantro
- Take Sour cream
- Prepare Croutons
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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 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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