Lentil & Ham Soup
Lentil & Ham SoupToday I’m sharing with you my Lentil & Ham Soup! I hope you had a really good Christmas and managed to stay dry and well! My part of the world was struck by all the flooding which caused many roads to be closed and meant that my husband had to take his mother home via a 10 mile trip instead of the 2 mile one we’re used to on Christmas day. Luckily we weren’t flooded but many in the neighbourhood were and my thoughts are with them and everyone else who was struck with flooding or power cuts over Christmas.
The River Wey rose 4 meters above its normal height causing chaos locally.
I have just made this soup and thought that it was my duty to share it with you as I’m sure that there a fridges around the country heaving under the strain of all those Christmas leftovers. I had home cooked ham and stock which needed using up as well as some carrots and a huge courgette so I came up with this recipe. My husband loves lentils so I used these as the basis of this soup which tastes really good.
As this dish is made from scratch I’m entering it into Javelin Warrior’s Made with Love Mondays event and also into Credit Crunch Munch which I run with Helen at Fuss Free Flavours as it is so frugal.
Christmas Day flooding gave rise to a lake on Boxing Day in our local park!
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Lentil & Ham Soup
A Lentil and Ham Soup with carrots, courgettes and a hint of curry to give a hearty, winter warming soup.
Ingredients
- 25 g Unsalted butter
- 2 Large carrots diced
- 1 Onion finely dice
- 3 Garlic cloves crushed
- 1 tbsp Rapeseed oil
- 1 Large courgette diced
- 400 g Red lentils washed
- Pinch of nutmeg
- 1 tsp Madras curry powder
- 1 Bay leaf
- 1.8 ltrs Homemade ham stock
- 200 g Cooked ham finely chopped
Instructions
- Fry onion, carrot and garlic gently for 5 minutes in the butter.
- Add the oil and courgette and fry gently until the vegetables are tender.
- Add the curry powder and fry for a minute.
- Add lentils, stock, bay leaf and nutmeg.
- Bring to the boil and then simmer for 25 minutes.
- Remove the bay leaf and blend half the soup to give a slightly chunky texture
- Add the chopped ham and heat through before serving.
- Garnish with some chopped ham if wished.
Recipe Notes
If your stock is overly salty add some water to it to dilute.
Paul Wilson
Lentils are very healthy. I must try more lentil recipes.
Camilla
Yes and I can thoroughly recommend my post for Glenda’s Winter Lentil Soup too:-)
victoria thurgood
This does sound yummy great for this cold weather
Camilla
Thank you, very comforting in this weather:-)
Janice
flooding is a miserable thing, glad it didn’t come any closer to you. Lovely soup, I always use ham stock for my lentil soup.
Camilla
Thanks Janice, yes we’re luckily just next to and not in the flood plain!
Louise Lumsden
yum that looks fab & is my fave soup I’ve never put courgette in before , will have to try it
Camilla
Thanks, hope you enjoy it too:-)
Julie's Family Kitchen
Your soup looks really warming and comforting. Sorry to hear the floods hit your area so badly. I trust you are all safe and well.
Camilla
Thanks it is just what we need after all this dreadful weather!
Maya Russell
Thank you for this warming recipe and use of Christmas ham.
Camilla
Pleasure:-)
Janine
I’ve got a feeling that this could be my new favourite
Camilla
Thank you:-)
DANIELLE VEDMORE
Looks lovely – very similar to my mums lentil and bacon recipe which everyone adores 🙂
Camilla
And not disimilar from my Glenda’s Winter Lentil Soup:-)
Laura Wilce
Good to hear you weren’t flooded. Awful weather, especially for Christmas.
I’ll be trying this soup. So warming and such great flavours!
Camilla
Thank you, just found out that the property not protected by our close’s flood wall next door but one had flood water up to their back door and as our immediate neighbour has a raised garden this must have stopped the water reaching us! Phew!
Hope you enjoy the soup:-)
Javelin Warrior
I’m so glad to hear the flooding hasn’t brought water into your home and you’ve been able to keep dry. And with a soup like this, you should be able to keep warm too 🙂 Love the use of lentils and curry with the ham…
Camilla
Thanks Mark we were lucky and to not loose our power! The soup is indeed keeping us warm as it has got quite chilly here:-)