Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have leftover ham and lentil soup using 30 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup:
- Prepare Base
- Prepare Hunk of butter (or oil)
- Get 1 onion, diced
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic
- Take 3 carrots
- Prepare 1 tsp flour
- Take Splash wine
- Prepare 1 cup stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work)
- Take Bouquet Garni (herb bundle)
- Make ready Cheesecloth
- Get Butcher’s twine
- Get 1 cinnamon stick
- Prepare 2 bay leaves, broken
- Get 2 allspice
- Prepare 2 star anise
- Take 4 cloves
- Prepare 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
- Prepare 1/2 tsp fenugreek
- Take 1 dried chili pepper
- Make ready 1 tsp thyme
- Make ready The Soup
- Get 1 cup dry lentils (green or yellow)
- Prepare 1 Tupperware of leftover roasted ham, diced
- Take 1/2 tsp cumin (optional)
- Make ready 1/2 tsp garam masala (optional)
- Get Salt and pepper
- Make ready Garnish
- Get Chopped fresh cilantro
- Prepare Sour cream
- Get Croutons
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Instructions 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!
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