Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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