Traditional Newfoundland Bean Soup with Ham
  • Yield: 1
  • Prep Time: Overnight soaking beans in water, cutting vegetables 15 minutes, cooking ham bone 1 hour minutes
  • Cook Time: 60 minutes
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Traditional Newfoundland Bean Soup with Ham

By February 5, 2017

Bean Soup with Ham
Ham cut in small pieces
Bean Soup with Ham
Dried mixed beans

or use all white beans, the choice of beans are all up to you. This soup is packed full of mixed dried beans that have been soaking overnight in cold water, remove water and set aside until ready to add to your boiler.

This bean soup is so delicious, packed full of ham and vegetables. Winter time soups I always think of bean soup it is comfort food for sure. Making this soup is so easy just follow these steps and enjoy building your flavours to this soup you will love it.

Ingredients

Instructions

The key to making any delicious soups is to build those flavours by making your own stock. We are starting this soup with a ham bone I had frozen for this occasion, fill your boiler up three quarters way with cold water and add the ham bone, with ham still on the bone. Then start building those flavours by adding onion, bay leaves, pepper or pepper corn, let this boil until you see the ham start to remove from the bone.

 

1- In a medium bowl three quarters full of cold water add your dry beans of choice, let soak overnight. When ready to make soup drain water off and set aside until ready.

2- In a large boiler three quarters full of water add your ham bone with ham on it, let boil on medium heat until ham starts to remove from bone. "This can take one hour."

3- In that same boiler add, bay leaves, pepper or pepper corns, one cubed onion, half cover the boiler and let it continue boiling until ready.

4- When cooked remove ham bone take all the ham off it and chop in small pieces and put it back in boiler, remove bay leaves, and any stuff floating on the top of boiler.

5- Then add your beans let boil for another hour or until beans are tender.

6- Peel and clean your vegetables then start chopping your vegetables to small pieces and put in a bowl of cold water.

7- When beans are cooked, drain water off vegetables then add to boiler and then add your seasonings let boil for another half hour.

8- Then lower the heat to simmer until you are ready to serve or bottle soup in mason jars until another time. Bottle soup hot  seal the tops on and date each bottle, when soup comes to room temperature store in your fridge up to three weeks.

Serve soup with freshly baked bread rolls or crackers.

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Bean Soup with Ham
Bean Soup with Ham and packed full of vegetables and layers of flavours that makes this soup so delicious.

A cold winters day soup that will make you go back for more, this bright flavourful soup with tons of freshly cut vegetables.

Serve your soup with freshly baked buns or bread, recipe available on our site.

Traditional Newfoundland Homemade Bread
Freshly baked Bread buns
Homemade bread
Freshly baked bread, with a lightly coat of butter melting over the bread.

When making this bean soup if you don’t have a ham bone or leftover ham, use salt beef or salt ribs. If you replace ham with beef soak overnight or boil it for an hour then drain the pot water off before adding your beans or vegetables.

Anyway you make this soup you will be glad you did, if you only like to make bean soup without meat use vegetables stock or make your own.

Making your own stock you can add the following vegetables, parsnips, celery, onions, garlic, turnips and carrots. Let boil in a boiler of water for a couple of hours on a medium heat. Top with seasons of choice of course sea salt or celery salt, pepper, onion powder, thyme, or fine herbs.

Bean Soup with Ham
Smoked ham bone in a boiler of water with bay leaves, pepper and onion.
Bean Soup with Ham
Fresh vegetables

I love tons of vegetables in my bean soup, but remember you can make this soup the way you like it, years ago there was big families and people made lots of soups and stews. They used lots of vegetables in there soups because it went a long ways, and of course they had homemade bread or rolls with their soup so they will feel more full for longer.

Just remember you can always add more freshly chopped herbs or seasonings if you like just taste your soup as it boils to know if you have enough flavours, keep building on theses flavours you will not be disappointed.

 

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