Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
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! Add your delicious veggie mixture to a crock pot or large soup pot. Add the reserved lentil water until everything looks a bit too runny. Add cumin and garam masala, if using, and salt and pepper.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Get Base
- Get Hunk of butter (or oil)
- Get onion, diced
- Prepare garlic
- Get carrots
- Make ready flour
- Make ready wine
- Get stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work)
- Prepare Bouquet Garni (herb bundle)
- Get Cheesecloth
- Take Butcher’s twine
- Prepare cinnamon stick
- Get bay leaves, broken
- Get allspice
- Make ready star anise
- Make ready cloves
- Make ready black peppercorns
- Make ready fenugreek
- Take dried chili pepper
- Get thyme
- Get The Soup
- Get dry lentils (green or yellow)
- Get Tupperware of leftover roasted ham, diced
- Make ready cumin (optional)
- Prepare garam masala (optional)
- Take Salt and pepper
- Make ready Garnish
- Take Chopped fresh cilantro
- Take Sour cream
- Take Croutons
The tender lentils and hearty cubes of leftover ham are filling enough that the men in the family will love it. Serve Crock Pot Ham and Lentils Soup with, homemade biscuits, a loaf of homemade Italian bread. Or make this easy No-Knead Garlic Rosemary Bread and spread it with butter before sopping up the thick broth. Your family will love this classic, slow-simmered lentil soup.
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!
Or make this easy No-Knead Garlic Rosemary Bread and spread it with butter before sopping up the thick broth. Your family will love this classic, slow-simmered lentil soup. Hearty and filling, it gets flavor and texture from carrots, celery, and onions, while meaty cubes of leftover ham or ham hock add a smokey profile. Our easy-to-make homemade croutons are a great way of repurposing stale bread, and they add creaminess and crunch to the soup. 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.
So that’s going to wrap it up for this exceptional food leftover ham and lentil soup recipe. Thank you very much for your time. I’m confident that you can make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!