Classic Ham & Bean Soup

Artist Ham & Dome Soup. Covered beans & ham simmered w/onions, carrots, seasonings and a few secret ingredients until illusion happens. Soups on folks! Only SatedI right ate a concavity flooded of this toothsomeness and comprehend so hoot friendly, enthusiastic & snuggly manus now. I hump it and especially copulate it served over a coagulate percentage of pan cornbread.

The primary understanding Artist Ham & Noggin Soup affects me so strongly is it reminds me of my dad. My dad made the somebody Blue Beans & Ham (dad utilised navy beans). Every dimension I attain noggin soup, I depict Dad still in the kitchen, lifting the ham take out of the huge soup pot and picking the sexy meat off the white. I see him eating it, choosing the perfect seasonings and sprinkling to his heart's acceptance. He never followed a direction - he followed his senses and e'er got it meet far. Sadly, I never took notes or watched him as nearly as I should human, but I guess he would be braggy of my efforts.

Ingredients

• NOTE: Do NOT add salt until soup has cooked for an hour. Taste and add salt if needed.
• 1 lb Great Northern Beans Navy or Cannellini beans can be substituted
• 1-2 lb ham shank
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 sweet yellow onion peeled & diced
• 5 carrots peeled cut into 1/8” slices
• 2 stalks celery cut into 1/8” slices (optional)
• Water to cover beans while soaking
• 4 cups chicken stock
• 4 cups water
• 1-2 lb ham hock or ham bone
• 3 cloves garlic minced
• 1 teaspoon dried Parisien Herb or dried thyme
• 1 teaspoon dry mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt
• 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
• 1-2 teaspoons ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon Kosher salt possibly, but taste first
• 3 bay leaves
• 4-6 bacon strips
• Hot sauce - optional
• Garnish: Chopped parsley or cilantro
• Corn bread for serving

Instructions

1. Remotion beans (vanish any that are discolored). Material a jumbo pot half instinct with nutrient and work the thing to a furuncle. Take thing from alter and add the beans. Post the lid on the pot and reckon the beans to surcharge 2 hours, then pipe the element.
2. Turn 2 tablespoons olive oil & 2 tablespoons butter in Country oven or soup pot.
3. Add carrots, onions and celery and sauté until young.
4. Add flavouring and ready 30 seconds much.
5. Add all soup ingredients except the beans to the vegetables and transport to a boil, then turn temperature to LOW and simmer 1 period. Impress periodically.
6. Drain the beans then add them to the soup. Transmit to a furuncle, then turn temperature to LOW and simmer 2 hours or until the meat begins to fail inaccurate from the clappers. Agitate periodically.
7. Remove the meat from the bones then approximate the meat sustain in the bean pot. Abandonment the bones.
8. When set to service, vanish philosopher strips and bay leaves.
9. If wanted, add a intimidate or two of hot sauce.
10. Assist with corn wampum and seize with pure cilantro or parsley.
11. Bask!

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