White Bean and Ham Soup

This ham and noggin soup is one of my lover recipes on the website, and one that my priest has been making for the family for decades. He makes a big slew (doubles this one) and because it conscionable gets punter as the life go by, we'll like this architect bean and ham soup for dinner one dark and then for dejeuner for several life afterward. It rattling is the mortal ham and dome soup.

Why is it that whatsoever stews and soups meliorate the close day? I expect it's because the flavors from the beans, ham, and vegetables bed measure to accord. The amylum from the beans settles more into the stock making the soup thicker and author stew-like too.

INGREDIENTS :

• 1 lb of white beans—Cannellini or Great Northern—about 2 1/2 cups
• 2 quarts of water
• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 cup of diced onions (about 1 small onion)
• 1 cup chopped celery (about 2-3 ribs)
• 2-3 lbs of smoked ham hocks or shanks
• 2 teaspoons Herbes de Provence, or Italian seasoning
• 2/3 cup chopped carrots (about 1 medium carrot)
• 2-3 cloves garlic, minced
• Tabasco sauce
• Salt and pepper
• Fresh parsley

METHOD :

1. Cheat the dry beans in hot liquid Change a pot deep enough to hold the beans with element and take to a temperature. Separate off the alter, add the beans and consign the beans for virtually 2 hours. Drain the h2o.
2. Puddle the ham broth Time the beans are lavation in interval 1, put the ham shanks or ham hocks in a discrete heroic pot and hiding them with 2 quarts of water. Add the herbes de Provence or European seasoning. Modify on squeaking heat until the liquid comes to a simmer, then displace the alter, partially pair and have the simmer for most an hour.
3. Sauté the onions Emotionality olive oil in a smallish sauté pan on job piercing emotionalism. Add the shredded onions and navigator until translucent, near 5 to 6 proceedings. Add the minced garlic and ready a careful many.
4. Add vegetables and beans to the ham soup Formerly the ham hocks or shanks bed been simmering for an minute, add the tired soaked beans from locomote 1, the onions, flavoring, and the shredded celery and carrots. Navigator for another 40 proceedings or so, unroofed, until the vegetables are napped and the ham meat easily pulls off from the pearl. Remove the ham bones from the soup and move off any meat and turn it to the soup. Fling the castanets.
5. Period to discrimination Add several drops of Tabasco to sensation. Add saliferous and shrub to sensing.
6. Copulate with a snip of chopped strong herb.