Crock Pot Bean Soup With Ham Recipes

SLOW COOKER HAM AND BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Place 15-bean soup mix in a large bowl and cover with several inches of cool water; soak in refrigerator 8 hours to overnight. Drain and rinse.
• Place 15-bean soup mix, ham bone, cooked ham, chicken broth, water, onion, carrots, great Northern beans, garlic, black pepper, salt, and bay leaf in a slow cooker; stir to combine. Cook on Low for 8 to 10 hours.

SLOW-COOKER VEGETABLE, BEAN AND HAM SOUP

Steps:

• Sort beans; rinse well and drain. Soak beans at least 8 hours or overnight as directed on bag; drain.
• In 3- to 4-quart slow cooker, mix beans and all remaining ingredients.
• Cover; cook on Low setting 8 to 12 hours. Before serving, remove and discard bay leaves.

CROCK POT BEAN SOUP WITH HAM

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Put the beans in a colander and rinse thoroughly. Pick over and discard any malformed or damaged beans and look for small stones.
• Combine beans, ham bone, water, chopped onion, garlic or garlic powder, and the bay leaf in the slow cooker.
• Cover and cook on high for 1 hour.
• Turn to low and cook 6 to 8 hours longer, or until beans are tender.
• Season with lemon juice, honey or brown sugar, salt, and pepper, to taste.
• Remove ham bone; chop meat and return to crockpot.
• Remove bay leaf before serving.
• Enjoy!

HAM AND GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP FOR THE CROCK POT

Steps:

• Place the soaked and rinsed beans in a 5- or 6-quart crock pot. Look them over one more time for any bad beans or foreign matter.
• Add chopped carrots and onion.
• Pour chicken broth (pan drippings/chicken broth combination if you're using it) over beans, carrots, and onion. Mix gently.
• Add ham and stir again.
• Throw in ground thyme, basil, and ground black pepper. (Measurements in ingredients section are a guesstimate, I hardly ever use measuring spoons when cooking, I just make a cup in my hand and eyeball it.) To my tastebuds, a little thyme goes a long way so you may wish to add more than 1/2 teaspoon. Stir again.
• Add bay leaf and push it gently under the surface of the broth so it doesn't float.
• Cook on high for 1 hour, then low for 8 hours, stirring once in a while if you can. You could probably just cook on low for 8-9 hours if there's nobody home to change the setting. I just like to get things heated up and moving so I do high for an hour on just about everything I put in a Crock Pot.
• Remove the bay leaf.
• Add salt just before serving to the whole pot or individual bowls.
• This may taste good with a drop of Dijon mustard in individual bowls or even a tablespoon or two of cream.
• If it's too thin, just take the lid off for a while.

SATISFYING HAM AND 18 BEAN SOUP (CROCK POT)

Steps:

• Sort and wash beans; place in crockpot. Cover with water to 2 inches above beans; cover and let stand 8 hours or overnight. Drain beans.
• Combine rest of ingredients.
• Cook on high for 2 hours then lower the heat to low and cook for 4 hours (or cook for 8 hours on low).
• Remove ham hock and let cool for 15 minutes. Remove the bay leaf. Take a stick blender and puree some or all of the soup. Chop the ham in bite size pieces and add back to the soup.
• Taste for seasoning and correct at this point.

GRANDMA B'S BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Place the beans in a slow cooker with enough water to cover, and soak 6 to 8 hours, or overnight.
• Drain the beans, and return to the slow cooker. Cover with water, and mix in the carrots, potatoes, celery, onion, and ham.
• Cover slow cooker, and cook soup on High for 3 1/2 hours. Switch to Low, and continue cooking at least 6 1/2 hours. The longer it cooks the more flavorful it becomes.