Steps to Prepare Gordon Ramsay Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. 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. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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

Instructions 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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