Simple Way to Make Award-winning Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup

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

Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated 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.

To get started with this 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:

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