Did you ever taste the ham and beans recipe at a relative’s home? Don’t you know how to make this tasty food at your home? Let us tell you how to make a traditional recipe of ham and beans, ham and bean soup, and everything you need to know about it. If you are making this recipe for the first time, you must know that please don’t change the ingredients I’ve mentioned and don’t vary the proportions. It is only to make you aware of the actual taste of this recipe in the traditional way.
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Things To Consider Before Making Ham And Beans Recipe:
In the recipes given by this article, I have kept the ingredients short. So, you can try it most efficiently. Let’s discuss what you can consider.
- Do you have leftover ham and beans? Use it.
- Use great Northern beans and simmer them with harm slowly, seasonings, and onion.
- You can serve this recipe with cornbread, wilted spinach, or rice.
Recipe 1:
- It requires 15 minutes of preparation.
- The cooking time is two hours.
- Eight more hours
- Total time is 10 hours and 15 minutes
- You will yield seven servings
Ingredients Required:
- A pound of (dry northern beans)
- Half pound of diced ham
- A small diced onion
- One-half cup of brown sugar
- One-fourth teaspoon of cayenne pepper
- A tablespoon of dried Parsley
Recipe Procedure Steps:
- Take a large pot and rinse all beans, but cleanse them before.
- Let it stay in the water for at least 8 hours or overnight.
- The following day, drain the beans and rinse them.
- Put beans into the same pot and add brown sugar, ham, onion, pepper, salt to taste, cayenne pepper, and Parsley. Also, add some water to cover.
- Let them boil and reduce the heat. Keep boiling for the next one-and-one-half or two hours. The beans must be tender.
- Add some water if needed.
Your beans and gam recipe is ready to serve.
Per Serving:
- 300 calories
- Protein 18.6g
- Carbohydrates 42.8g
- Fat 6.7g
- Cholesterol 18.2mg
- Sodium 423.5mg
Leftover Ham & Beans Recipe 2:
- 20 minutes of preparation time
- Two hours of cooking time
Ingredients Required;
- One lb of northern beans (drain after soaking overnight)
- One-half lb of cubed or shredded (cooked ham)
- One ham bone (with leftover meat)
- One-half cup of brown sugar
- Chopped onion (one small)
- One-half tablespoon of garlic
- Salt to taste
- Pepper
- Covering water
Note:- This recipe is an old fashioned recipe for ham and beans. So, you will taste the real. But make sure you don’t vary anything if you make it for the first time.
Recipe Procedure Steps:
- Keep the beans soaked overnight.
- Combine them with a ham bone, ham, brown sugar, onion, garlic, salt, black pepper in a soup kettle.
- Cover it with water and simmer for the next two hours.
- Stir occasionally or check if beans are cooked or not and have released the flavor.
- It’s ready to serve.
Recipe 3: Soup:
Are you still not satisfied with the ham and beans recipe we have shared above? Then, let us share one more recipe with you. You can make this delicious ham and beans soup at your home with the leftover ham and beans.
What You’ll Find Here?
- Lots of beans
- Tendered chunks of carrot
- A thickened broth
- No shortage of spices
- Salty ham in giant chunks
We have uniquely made this soup to make it stand out from the other recipes. So let’s get you in this recipe.
Things To Consider:
- I’ve copied this recipe from my aunt’s kitchen. She is the master cooker of classic comfort foods.
- I have used many vegetables, different blended beans, and ham hocks.
- Have you heard of smoked ham hocks? Try it for this recipe because I’ve used it in this recipe.
- Have it with chunks of bread, cheesy toast, and other favorites.
- We used canned beans. But it’s also good if you use dried beans, and you need a pressure cooker to cook them.
Recipe Overview:
- Preparation time (20 minutes)
- Cooking time (five hours)
- Total time (five hours 20 minutes)
Ingredients Required:
- One tablespoon of oil (any of your kitchen oil)
- One-and-one-half diced onion
- Chopped garlic cloves (4)
- Celery (two cups, diced)
- Six medium diced carrots
- Half pound of beans (red kidney beans, pink beans, pinto beans, or any other beans, mixed)
- Nine cups of water
- Two bay leaves (large)
- Two teaspoons of thyme (dried)
- Two teaspoons of garlic (powder)
- Two teaspoons of onion (powder)
- One-half teaspoons of (white pepper and some black pepper)
- One-fourth teaspoon of paprika
- Two tablespoons (chicken bouillon paste)
- Two large smoked ham hocks
- Chopped Parsley (one-half cups fresh)
- One-half teaspoons of liquid smoke (optimal to enhance the taste)
Recipe Procedure Steps:
- Heat a Dutch oven or use a soup pot over medium heat.
- Add oil to it.
- Add onion and cook till it changes color.
- Add garlic to it and cook for at least two minutes.
- Add carrots and celery.
- Cook five more minutes
- Add beans and water
- Increase the heat and cook it for some time.
- Add thyme, bay leaves, garlic powder, onion powder, peppers, chicken bouillon paste, and paprika.
- Let it boil and add ham or ham hocks if used.
- Reduce the heat.
- Let it produce low bubbles.
- Cook it for four to five hours and stir periodically.
- If you think the heat is low, make it high and after some time, check the consistency.
- Add water if needed.
- In the last hour, add Parsley.
- Finally, the soup will thicken, and you can see bones removed from ham hocks. Remove them, and keep everything ready to serve.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What If The Soup Is Saltier?
You can add some water and crush the beans for their starchiness. Let it thicken again.
How Much Water To Add?
To keep the consistency of this soap again, add water in the proportion of one to two cups.
What If I Can’t Find The Ham Hocks?
We discussed this recipe based on smoked ham hocks. But when you can’t find smoked ham hocks, you can use some chunks of ham and add liquid smoke.
Why Is Dutch Oven Essential For This Recipe?
It’s essential in this recipe because it makes it easy to create bubbles in the soup quickly. There are no risks of burning your soup. So, we used a Dutch oven.
What If I Don’t Have The Dutch Oven?
You can use any soup pan to keep it at the same low heat and follow all the steps carefully. But make sure you don’t let it burn.
What If I’m Using Dried Beans?
It would help if you used a pressure cooker to cook them. Otherwise, the beans may not be cooked thoroughly.
How To Store Ham And Beans Soup?
Don’t you know that you can freeze this soup well and keep it stored for up to 3 months? Of course, you can do it, but make sure you use an airtight container to store it.
Wrapping Up:
Did you learn to make a ham and beans recipe? This article has listed the three hams and bean soups that you can make at your home. We also discussed alternatives to some things that you can use. If you have leftover ham and beans after making a few dishes, try making this soup and see how it turns out for you.
