Easiest Way to Make Homemade Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must 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:

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

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!

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