Steps to Make Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup in 17 Minutes for Family

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special 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 must prepare a few components. You can cook 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:

1. Take Base
2. Get Hunk of butter (or oil)
3. Get 1 onion, diced
4. Make ready 3 cloves garlic
5. Make ready 3 carrots
6. Take 1 tsp flour
7. Take Splash wine
8. Make ready 1 cup stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work)
9. Get Bouquet Garni (herb bundle)
10. Take Cheesecloth
11. Get Butcher’s twine
12. Take 1 cinnamon stick
13. Prepare 2 bay leaves, broken
14. Prepare 2 allspice
15. Get 2 star anise
16. Prepare 4 cloves
17. Take 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
18. Take 1/2 tsp fenugreek
19. Make ready 1 dried chili pepper
20. Prepare 1 tsp thyme
21. Take The Soup
22. Make ready 1 cup dry lentils (green or yellow)
23. Take 1 Tupperware of leftover roasted ham, diced
24. Take 1/2 tsp cumin (optional)
25. Get 1/2 tsp garam masala (optional)
26. Take Salt and pepper
27. Get Garnish
28. Make ready Chopped fresh cilantro
29. Make ready Sour cream
30. Get Croutons

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Instructions 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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