Best 3 Navy Bean With Ham Soup By Heather N Recipes

NAVY BEAN SOUP WITH HAM

Steps:

• Place navy beans into a large pot and cover with cold water by 2 inches. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove pot from heat, cover, and let stand for 1 hour. Drain beans.
• Use a small piece of kitchen twine to tie parsley and thyme sprigs and bay leaf into a small bundle. Place soaked beans, herb bundle, ham hocks, carrot, onion, and garlic into a large soup pot or Dutch oven. Pour 8 cups cold water over ingredients. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer until beans and ham hocks are tender, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Turn off heat; remove ham hocks and let cool. When they are cool enough to handle, remove meat from the bones, discarding the bones, fat, and skin. Chop ham into small cubes. Remove and discard herb bundle.
• Transfer about 3 cups cooked beans along with some cooking liquid into a blender; puree beans. Pour pureed beans back into soup, add cooked ham, and bring back to a simmer over medium heat. Season with kosher salt and black pepper to taste.

NAVY BEAN WITH HAM SOUP, BY HEATHER N.

Steps:

• Place beans in bowl, add just enough water to cover. Soak 6-8 hours or overnight.
• Stock:.
• Place ham shank in crockpot and add just enough water to cover,.
• Add coarsely chopped carrots and celery.
• Add salt.
• Cover and cook on high for 6 hours. Makes about 2 quarts of stock.
• Remove bone and meat, reserve. Strain broth into container. Refrigerate.
• Soup:.
• Add beans to crockpot.
• Skim fat off of stock. Add all stock to crockpot.
• Add chopped carrots, celery and diced onion.
• Add in 16oz cubed ham.
• Return bone and meat from shank to crockpot.
• Cook on HIGH for 3.5 hours then reduce to LOW for 6.5 hours.
• Remove Ham bone. And serve.
• If you prefer a thicker soup you can puree a can of great northern beans and add to crockpot to thicken.

NAVY BEAN AND HAM SOUP

Steps:

• In large pot, bring water, beans, ham hocks, onion, carrot, garlic, thyme and bay leaf to a boil over medium heat.
• Reduce heat and simmer until beans are tender, about 90 minutes. Discard bay leaf and thyme sprigs.
• Remove ham hocks from soup and let cool slightly. Pick meat from the bones and shred into bite sized pieces. Discard bones, fat and skin.
• Return meat to soup and heat through. Serve garnished with parsley.