Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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:

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

Steps 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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