Hearty Vegetable Soup With Ham Recipes

HEARTY VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan or cooking pot, add olive oil and butter and heat on medium-high.
• Add onions and saute until translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Add garlic, tomatoes including liquid and continue to cook on medium-high heat for another 6 to 8 minutes.
• Add vegetable or chicken broth, potatoes and carrots and cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add cauliflower, celery, water, vegetable soup base and cook for 8 minutes or until vegetables are just tender.
• Add red pepper, petite baby peas, dill weed, seasoning salt and pepper and cook for another 3 minutes.
• Adjust seasonings to taste.
• Serve soup hot.
• Refrigerate any unused portions.

LEFTOVER HAM AND VEGGIE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil over medium heat in a large stockpot. Add onion; cook and stir until softened and translucent, 3 to 4 minutes.
• Place potatoes, ham, carrots, celery, parsley, and Italian seasoning into pot. Cook and stir until vegetables begin to soften, about 5 minutes. Add bay leaves, chicken broth, corn, and peas and bring to a boil, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium and cook until vegetables have cooked down and are tender, about 20 minutes.
• Remove bay leaves; add butter and pepper to taste. Top with shredded Cheddar cheese.

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.

HEARTY CABBAGE AND HAM SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large stockpot over medium-high heat. Add celery, onion, and carrot. Saute for 4 minutes. Stir in flour and cook 1 minute more.
• Add cabbage, broth, ham, potatoes, parsley, thyme, marjoram, and ground pepper. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, reduce heat, and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes.
• Stir in peas and cook for 10 minutes. Ladle into bowls and serve.