Ham and Vegetable Soup

This tasty ham and vegetable soup is packed full of nutrition. It's an easy to make hearty healthy soup that makes 6 to 8 portions. It freezes well too.

Folks, there's history to this delicious ham and vegetable soup!

I was introduced to this winter veg soup recipe by very good friend of mine, Nicola. Over 20 years ago, when I was in my first job after university.

We worked together in a bank in Dundee and she often made this for her own lunch before introducing me to it.

This simple ham vegetable soup quickly became a staple of mine. Indeed it probably saved me from malnutrition!

It's still more or less the original recipe that she wrote down for me - all credit to her!

So filling, this soup is a great help in avoiding the temptation to reach for those unhealthy in-between meal snacks!

I tend to only have a small roll with this soup, as I’m so full up when I’ve eaten it!

The recipe will make between 6 - 8 portions for you to freeze. It’s also a great winter warmer.

There’s no need to use any spray oils for any softening of the ingredients in this ham and vegetable soup.

It's just a case of simply putting all the ingredients into one large pot and watching it bubble away on the stove!

If you have time to follow the preparation part in the recipe called "night before" for great home made soup with ham stock, then all the better.

But if you don’t, or can’t get the bacon joint, then you can skip straight to the preparing of the ingredients as ham stock cubes will do just as well.

Incidentally, I did not use a bacon joint in the picture of the soup that you see. I used 3 ham stock cubes and added in little pieces of chopped gammon joint that I had left over from Christmas. Then I added all the vegetables.

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Equipment

• Saucepans
• Chopping board
• Kitchen knives
• Peeler
• Kitchen scale
• Wooden spoon
• Measuring jug
• Potato masher

This is the set of pans I recommend for cooking with.

The set includes 16, 18, 20 cm saucepans, 1 x 14 cm milk pan and 1 x 24 cm fry pan.

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This tasty ham and vegetable soup is packed full of nutrition. It's an easy to make hearty healthy soup that makes 6 to 8 portions. It freezes well too. Click to Tweet

Ham and Vegetable Soup Recipe

You could have this ham and vegetable soup as your main meal with a couple of hunks of homemade bread!

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Ham and Vegetable Soup Recipe

Packed full of nutrition this ham and vegetable soup will fill you up and help to avoid you reaching for those unhealthy snacks!

Prep Time30 minutes mins

Cook Time30 minutes mins

Total Time1 hour hr

Course: Lunch

Cuisine: British

Servings: 8

Calories: 303kcal

Author: Neil

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Equipment

• Saucepans
• Chopping board
• Kitchen knives
• Peeler
• Kitchen scale
• Wooden spoon
• Measuring jug
• Potato masher

Ingredients

• 1.5 L ham stock (made by night before method below or ham stock cubes)
• 175 g red split lentils
• 2 large leeks , cleaned and chopped into 1cm strips
• 4 peeled and chopped medium sized white potatoes
• 3 large carrots , diced
• 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
• Salt and pepper

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Night before:-

• In a large pot (enough to hold 2.5litres of liquid in total) place a ham/bacon joint, cover with cold water, bring to the boil, and simmer for approximately 1.5 hours. Switch off the heat and cover the pot leaving it overnight for the flavours to marinate.

In the morning

• Remove the bacon joint from the cold water and set aside, skim off any fat from the liquid in the pot. Chop off little pieces of the bacon meat (do not add any bacon fat) from the joint and add back to the liquid. Bring the liquid back to the boil and leave simmering gently. Meanwhile prepare the vegetables.
• Bring to the boil and turn down to simmer the 1.5 litres ham stock (with bacon meat pieces if used)
• Add the red split lentils, chopped leeks, chopped potatoes and diced carrots.
• Bring all the ingredients back to the boil and simmer gently for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add boiled water from your kettle if required to top up.
• Once all the vegetables are extremely soft, turn off the heat and allow the soup to cool for about 30 minutes.
• Use a potato masher to mash all the veg. Do not puree the ingredients; just mash them down to a consistency you like. Add boiled water from your kettle if you need to add more liquid.
• Add the chopped parsley and stir in thoroughly.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.

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Nutrition

Calories: 303kcal | Carbohydrates: 55.8g | Protein: 14.3g | Fat: 2.9g | Saturated Fat: 0.7g | Cholesterol: 5.7mg | Sodium: 589.3mg | Fiber: 12.5g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 5050IU | Vitamin C: 59.4mg | Calcium: 60mg | Iron: 3.8mg