Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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. Lentil soup on its own can seem bland and boring.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
- Prepare Base
- Prepare Hunk of butter (or oil)
- Make ready 1 onion, diced
- Get 3 cloves garlic
- Make ready 3 carrots
- Get 1 tsp flour
- Make ready Splash wine
- Make ready 1 cup stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work)
- Take Bouquet Garni (herb bundle)
- Prepare Cheesecloth
- Get Butcher’s twine
- Get 1 cinnamon stick
- Get 2 bay leaves, broken
- Prepare 2 allspice
- Take 2 star anise
- Prepare 4 cloves
- Take 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
- Take 1/2 tsp fenugreek
- Take 1 dried chili pepper
- Prepare 1 tsp thyme
- Get The Soup
- Get 1 cup dry lentils (green or yellow)
- Get 1 Tupperware of leftover roasted ham, diced
- Make ready 1/2 tsp cumin (optional)
- Make ready 1/2 tsp garam masala (optional)
- Take Salt and pepper
- Prepare Garnish
- Take Chopped fresh cilantro
- Get Sour cream
- Get 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 ham and bean soup is really simple.
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