Recipe of Gordon Ramsay Leftover Ham and Lentil Soup

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, leftover ham and lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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. Make ready Base
2. Prepare Hunk of butter (or oil)
3. Get onion, diced
4. Get garlic
5. Prepare carrots
6. Take flour
7. Make ready wine
8. Get stock (chicken/pork/veggie all work)
9. Make ready Bouquet Garni (herb bundle)
10. Prepare Cheesecloth
11. Prepare Butcher’s twine
12. Take cinnamon stick
13. Prepare bay leaves, broken
14. Take allspice
15. Make ready star anise
16. Make ready cloves
17. Take black peppercorns
18. Prepare 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. Make ready cumin (optional)
25. Make ready garam masala (optional)
26. Make ready Salt and pepper
27. Make ready Garnish
28. Take Chopped fresh cilantro
29. Get 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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