I made a Grilled Ham and Cheese Sandwich on our Panini maker. It was excellent. I was in luck, we had frozen Brioche Bread from our local great bakery - Proof Bakery. The secret to the crispy sandwich (besides the Panini was coating the outside of the Bread with lots of Butter, use a good strong Mustard and too completely be cross cultural, I sliced Bubbie's Kosher Dill Pill Pickles and placed them on the ham before grilling!
We also made Ham and Lentil Soup from the left over Ham. This was an excellent rich soup. We got a lot of use out of the Ham!
Ham and Lentil Soup Recipe
Culinary Hill
This Ham and Lentil Soup recipe is perfect for chilly weather and cooks up in about an hour; all you need is a loaf of French bread for a cozy winter’s feast. Put your leftover ham to work and make it on the stove, in a pressure cooker, or in your crockpot!
Soup has many superpowers: it warms us up, helps heal us when we are sick, and soothes the savage beast when we’re crabby with hunger.
Maybe that’s why so many people insist that they can’t make a decent soup, because it’s too tall an order to make something that is so good for you, and that can do so much.
Maybe that’s why the grocery shelves are stocked with so many cans of soup, none of which hold a candle to the real thing: made-from-scratch hambone lentil soup.
Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s totally, completely possible to make a delicious homemade soup with little more than a smoked ham hock and some lentils. If you make this lentil soup recipe, you’ll probably never buy another can of soup again. It’s that good.
I’ve always believed that the best soup in the world is the one you make yourself with basic ingredients. If you’ve got lentils in the pantry and a leftover hambone from the holidays, put it to work in this simple, completely satisfying soup.
This ham bone and lentil soup is perfect for the stove, the pressure cooker, or the crockpot, depending on what you want to use. All the instructions are included down below in the recipe.
What kind of lentils for hambone soup?
I recommend any variety of whole lentil for this recipe. Look for a green or brown lentil for making ham and lentil soup.
How Do You Cook Lentils?
Compared to other dried legumes, lentils are easy to prepare. There is no need to presoak lentils, and they take much less time to cook than chickpeas or beans.
I’ve written a how-to about lentils, if you care to explore this easygoing member of the pulse family; I love adding cooked lentils to almost everything!
For making hambone and lentil soup, cooking lentils is just a matter of adding the rinsed lentils to the cooking liquid and simmering until they’re tender. Pre-rinsing is super important, to remove any dust or grit, and to get rid of any pebbles that may have snuck in with the lentils.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup carrots sliced (2-3 carrots)
1 cup celery sliced (2-3 stalks)
1 large onion chopped (2 cups)
8 cups chicken broth
Dry mustard to taste
1 pound dried lentils picked over, rinsed, stones discarded
1 meaty ham bone or ham hock
How To Make Ham And Lentil Soup In A Dutch Oven On The Stove:
1. Heat olive oil in the Dutch oven over medium-high heat until shimmering.
2. Next, sauté carrots, celery, and onion until softened, about 5 minutes.
3. Stir in the broth, water, lentils, ham bone, spices, and bay leaf. Bring to a boil then simmer for 45 minutes, until lentils and ham are tender.
4. When the lentils are cooked, remove the hambone and the bay leaf. Cut the extra ham off of the bone, chop it up, and return it to the pot along with any additional ham you might be using.
5. Finally, season the soup to your taste with salt and pepper and garnish with parsley, if desired.
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