Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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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 cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup:
- Prepare Base
- Prepare Hunk of butter (or oil)
- Get onion, diced
- Prepare garlic
- Take carrots
- Prepare flour
- Take wine
- Get stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work)
- Get Bouquet Garni (herb bundle)
- Make ready Cheesecloth
- Take Butcher’s twine
- Make ready cinnamon stick
- Prepare bay leaves, broken
- Make ready allspice
- Get star anise
- Prepare cloves
- Prepare black peppercorns
- Get fenugreek
- Take dried chili pepper
- Get thyme
- Prepare The Soup
- Prepare dry lentils (green or yellow)
- Make ready Tupperware of leftover roasted ham, diced
- Take cumin (optional)
- Get garam masala (optional)
- Get Salt and pepper
- Make ready Garnish
- Get Chopped fresh cilantro
- Make ready Sour cream
- Make ready Croutons
Step by Step 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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