Ham Bone Vegetable Soup Food

HAM BONE AND VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt bacon grease in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir onion, carrots, celery, and garlic in hot bacon grease until vegetables are slightly tender and fragrant, about 5 minutes. Stir potatoes into onion mixture; cook and stir until golden, about 10 minutes.
• Stir hot water and chicken bouillon together in a slow cooker until bouillon is dissolved; add onion mixture, ham bone, diced tomatoes, corn, tomato sauce, black pepper, and salt.
• Cook soup in the slow cooker set to Low for 4 to 6 hours. Remove ham bone from soup and let rest until cool enough to handle. Remove meat from ham bone and stir meat into soup.

HAM AND VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Place ham hocks, carrots, celery, onion and water in a Dutch oven or soup kettle; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 2-1/2 hours or until meat starts to all off the bones. , Add potatoes and vegetables; bring to a boil oil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1 hour. Remove hocks; allow to cool. Remove meat from bones and cut into bite-size pieces; discard bones. Return meat to kettle. Stir in bean and bacon soup and pepper; heat through.

HEARTY VEGETABLE SOUP WITH HAM

Steps:

• Add ham to water in large dutch oven or stock pot.
• Bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 2 hours or so.
• Remove ham from water and put water in fridge until cooled completely. Pick and chop any meat from bone to add to soup.
• Gently remove hardened fat from top of broth with a slotted spoon and discard fat.
• Add chopped vegetables, tomatoes and garlic to broth and bring to a boil, simmer for about 20 minute
• Add chopped meat and simmer for another 10 minutes.
• Taste broth, and add chicken soup base to your desired taste.
• Add more water and soup base as needed.
• You can also add a can of kidney or other type of beans and/or 2 cups of kernel corn, green or yellow beans or diced potatoes if you desire.
• This recipe is very versatile and you can add in whatever you personally like in the way of vegetables.
• You can even leave out the ham and use chicken, beef or vegetable soup base.

HAM BONE SOUP

Steps:

• Cover ham bone in water and simmer for about an hour.
• Add onion and bay leaves. Simmer until onions are tender.
• Add potatoes, garlic, ham and beans. Simmer until ham falls off bone.
• Remove ham from ham bone. Add ham to soup and discard bone.
• Add butter, milk and pepper. Simmer until heated thoroughly.
• Add cornstarch or instant potato flakes to thicken.

HAM BONE VEGETABLE SOUP 1967

Steps:

• Heat oil and add onion, carrot, and bell pepper.
• Saute until soft and beginning to colour.
• Add ham bone, peppercorns, bay leaf and stock or water.
• Cover bring to a boil.
• Simmer one hour.
• Skim off foam.
• Add potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, partially cover.
• Cook on simmer for one hour.
• Add herbs and sauce and simmer 15 minutes.
• Add the parsley last, and serve immediately.

HAM BONE SOUP

Steps:

• The day before you want to make the soup. put the beans in a large bowl and add cold water to cover by several inches. Soak overnight (or at least 8 hours) in the refrigerator.
• Drain the beans and rinse. Heat the olive oil in a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the carrots, celery and leeks and season with 1 teaspoon of salt. Cook and stir until the vegetables are softened, about 5 minutes.
• Add the tomato paste and thyme and stir to coat the vegetables. Let the tomato paste toast for 1 minute, stirring, then add the bay leaves and 12 cups of water. Add the beans and nestle the ham bone in. Bring to a simmer and cook, uncovered, until the beans are almost tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
• Add the escarole, another 2 cups of water and 1 teaspoon salt. Return the soup to a simmer and cook until thickened and the beans and escarole are very tender, 20 to 30 minutes.
• Remove the bay leaves and ham bone from the soup and let cool until you can handle the bone. Shred any useable meat left on the bone and stir back into the soup. Season with salt and pepper before serving.

HAM BONE & VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large pot or dutch oven cook bacon until done but not crispy. Remove from pot and set aside. Leave bacon grease in pot.
• Add onion, celery and carrots to bacon grease. Saute for 5 minutes.
• Add garlic, thyme, cumin and oregano to onion mixture. Cook for additional 5 minutes.
• Add bacon and mix well.
• Add chicken broth, rinsed black beans and ham bone. Cook for 2 hours over medium heat.
• Remove ham bone and cut off any meat still on it.
• Place ham in soup. Add cayenne pepper and lime juice and cook for 30 minutes longer.
• Serve immediately.

SLOVAK HAM & VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Place ham in an 8 quart stock pot and add water to 1-inch below the top.
• Add onions, beans (if using dry beans), pepper, and parsley.
• Let simmer 5-6 hours.
• To prepare steranka: mix together egg, flour, and water and knead until smooth (dough should be very stiff).
• Pinch off bits of dough (about the size of a pea) onto a lightly floured board.
• When all of the pieces have been pinched off, drop into boiling water slowly so that the water doesn't stop boiling.
• Boil until all of the pieces come to the surface (3-5 minutes).
• Rinse with cold water and drain.
• Remove ham from the soup, and chip into bite sized pieces.
• Discard fat and bones, and return meat to soup.
• Add steranka and barley, and cook for 15 minutes.
• Add all vegetables (if using canned beans add with the vegetables instead of with the onions and seasonings), and simmer for 45 minutes.
• Add tomato soup, and simmer 15-20 minutes longer.

BECKY'S SOUTHERN HAM BONE VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• 1. When the potatoes are done -- the soup is ready to eat
• 2. Becky says this is very good with cornbread