Ham, Delicata Squelch As Well As Wild Rice Soup





Ingredients:
1 onion, chopped
iv cloves garlic, sliced
two carrots, sliced into coins
1 delicata squash, cubed (you tin larn out the peel on!)
1 (loose) loving cup dark-green beans (about 1/3 lb), cutting into bite-sized pieces
three dark-green onions, chopped
two cups ham, cubed
8 oz cooked wild rice*
64 oz chicken or ham stock
two bay leaves
pinch salt
freshly soil dark pepper

Directions:

In a large, heavy-bottomed pot, saute the onion, garlic, carrots, squelch in addition to dark-green beans until the onion is translucent. Add the ham in addition to saute until slightly browned, if desired. Add the remaining ingredients in addition to convey to a depression boil. Reduce estrus in addition to simmer until all is tender in addition to cooked through.
Remove bay leaves.

Serve immediately.

Yield: nearly v servings


*You tin build this yourself but I used a packet of microwaveable wild rice from Target (store brand) in addition to added it to the pot straight from the packet without heating it up.


My thoughts:
We don't ever pick out ham on Christmas (this twelvemonth my parents are making corned beef in addition to cabbage?) but ham is ever a slap-up bargain this fourth dimension of twelvemonth then I usually terminate upward buying at to the lowest degree i pocket-sized one. I bought a tiny boneless spiral sliced ham from Aldi that was tasty but it wasn't cutting all the means through! Very odd. I ended upward having to form of cutting around the middle to build pocket-sized slices (I could pick out exactly completed the cuts but I actually didn't postulate giant slices) in addition to it left a large chunk of barely cutting ham inwards the middle. Perfect for soup! 

This soup is perfect for using upward odds in addition to ends then experience gratuitous to tweak it. I had delicata squash, which doesn't postulate to last peeled but butternut would piece of job besides if you lot peel it. Parsnips would last expert inwards house of all or i of the carrots in addition to I actually wanted to operate celery but mine went mysteriously moldy overnight. I've been trying to operate dark-green onions (scallions) to a greater extent than similar vegetables lately then I cutting them into nearly 1/2 inch pieces rather than finely. The packet of wild rice I refer inwards the banker's complaint to a higher house is actually a game-changer when it comes to wild rice. It isn't 100% every bit expert every bit when I larn inwards myself but it is super quick in addition to honestly, I don't intend most people could nation the difference. I exactly add together it straight from the pouch to soups similar this or I estrus inwards a pan inwards a piffling H2O earlier adding it to other dishes. Wild rice adds such a savory, nutty season to dishes that I beloved in addition to goes slap-up amongst other rigid flavors similar smoky ham in addition to squash.



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