Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular 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 cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup:

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