Old Fashioned Ham An Bean Soup Recipes

BASIC HAM AND BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Rinse the beans, sorting out any broken or discolored ones. In a large pot over high heat, bring the water to a boil. Add the salt and the beans and remove from heat. Let beans sit in the hot water for at least 60 minutes.
• After the 60 minutes of soaking, return the pot to high heat and place the ham bone, carrots, celery, onion, garlic, mustard and bay leaves in the pot. Stir well, bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer for 60 more minutes.
• Remove ham bone and discard. Stir in the chopped ham and simmer for 30 more minutes. Season with ground white pepper to taste.

OLD-FASHIONED HAM AND BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Place the leftover ham bone in a large soup pot, and add 8 cups of water to the pot. Bring to a boil over high heat, and then reduce the heat and simmer over low heat for about 45 minutes. Remove the ham bone from the ham stock, pick off any extra meat, and discard the bone.
• Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a large skillet. Sauté the carrots, celery, and onions over medium heat until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and sauté until fragrant, about one minute.
• After removing the ham bone from the ham bone stock, add the onion mixture to the soup pot. Stir in the diced ham, potatoes, beans, thyme sprigs, and bay leaves.
• Bring to a boil over high heat, and then reduce the heat and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• At the end of cooking, remove the thyme sprigs and bay leaves and discard. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately.

CLASSIC HAM & BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Place beans into 5- to 6-quart heavy saucepan; cover with water to 2 inches above beans. Cook over high heat until water comes to a boil. Boil 3 minutes; remove from heat. Cover; let beans soak 1 hour. Rinse; drain.
• Return beans to saucepan. Add ham shank, water, chicken broth, onion, celery, garlic and bay leaf. Cook over medium-high heat 8-10 minutes or until mixture comes to a boil. Reduce heat to low. Cover; cook 85-90 minutes or until beans are tender.
• Remove ham shanks with tongs. Cool slightly. Cut meat from bone; discard bone, fat and skin.
• Chop meat; add back to soup. Add carrots, bell pepper, salt and pepper. Cook over medium-high heat 5-6 minutes or until mixture comes to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook until carrots are tender.
• Heat oven to 400°F.
• Brush both sides of baguette slices with melted butter. Place bread slices onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake 3-5 minutes or until bottoms begin to turn golden brown. Turn slices over; sprinkle with chopped parsley, if desired.
• Serve toasted bread slices with soup.

OLD FASHIONED HAM AND BEANS

Steps:

• 1. Combine the beans (which were soaked in water overnight and drained), ham, ham bone, brown sugar, onion, garlic salt, and black pepper in a soup kettle.
• 2. Pour enough water into the kettle to cover the mixture by about 2 inches.
• 3. Simmer 2-3 hours, stirring occasionally, or until beans are done and mixture has blended flavors well.

OLD FASHIONED BEAN SOUP RECIPE

Steps:

• Rinse beans, picking out any bad ones. Cover with water so there is a couple of inches of water over the top of the beans; soak overnight. Drain and add 4-5 cups water (enough to cover beans) in a large soup pot. Bring to quick boil over high heat. Reduce heat and add remaining ingredients. If soup bone is not mostly covered with water add a little more. Bring soup back to a boil and then reduce heat to low; cover and simmer for 2 1/2 hours, until beans are very tender. When beans are tender, remove the soup bone and cut off any meat and add back into the soup. If you have additional leftover ham, some can be added to the soup to provide a little more meat to the soup if desired. If mixture appears too thick, add a little boiling water. SLOW COOKER: Use basically the same directions only after bringing the beans to a quick boil, pour them and the water into the slow cooker. Add all the remaining ingredients, cover and turn slow cooker on low. Cook for 10 hours or until beans are tender. To speed cooking time you can cook on high for the first hour and then turn down to low and cook for 7 hours. Note: A small amount of baking soda added to the soup during cooking will reduce the amount of gas in the beans.

OLD FASHIONED BEAN AND HAM SOUP

Steps:

• Sort and rinse the beans and place in a 4 1/2 quart (or larger) dutch oven.
• Add 8 cups of water. Bring to boiling and reduce heat.
• Simmer, uncovered, 2 minutes. Remove from heat, cover and let stand for 1 hour.
• Alternatively, place beans in dutch oven and cover with 8 cups of water. Cover and let soak overnight. (Do not do this step if you do steps #1-3.).
• Drain and rinse beans.
• Put the beans back in the dutch oven and add 4 cups of water and remaining ingredients (except red onion).
• Bring to a boil and reduce heat.
• Simmer, covered, for 1 1/4 to 1 3/4 hours or until the beans are tender and beginning to split.
• Check beans occasionally during cooking. Add water if necessary, or you can remove the lid the last 10 minutes of cooking if the beans are too runny.
• Remove from heat.
• Remove pork hock and cool slightly. Trim off meat and chop, return meat to the beans. Heat through.
• Add salt to taste if your pork isn't very salty.
• Top with red onion, if desired.
• To serve, place a piece of cornbread in a bowl and spoon the soup over the cornbread.

OLD FASHIONED BEAN AND HAM SOUP

Steps:

• Put rinsed beans in pan and cover up to 2 inches past beans in large pot -- let sit overnight.
• Drain, put beans back in pot, add water and the rest of ingredients.
• Bring to boil, turn to simmer and cover.
• Simmer for at least 3 hours or until beans are soft.
• Take out bones and dice up any meat on bones and put back into pot -- You can add more ham if you want.
• Discard fat and bones.
• Season to taste with pepper and salt and parsley.

OLD-FASHIONED HAM AND BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Prepare the beans: rinse and discard broken or discolored ones. Bring water to a boil and flavor it with salt. Remove from heat and add the beans. Let the beans soften in the hot water for at least 1 hour.
• After soaking, place the pot on high heat and add the ham bone, carrots, celery, onion, garlic, mustard powder, and bay leaves. Stir well and bring to a boil. Reduce to low heat and let the soup simmer for 1 more hour.
• Remove the ham bone and stir in the chopped ham. Let it simmer for 30 more minutes, stirring occasionally. Season with ground white pepper to taste. Serve hot and enjoy!