Description
I could not find the perfect recipe so this is my recipe that I came up with after comparing three different ones. I combined the ingredients that I liked and mom’s ham and bean soup was invented. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups dried Great Northern beans
- 4 meaty ham hocks
- 5 cups water
- 1 ½ cups sliced celery
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 large carrot, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme, or more to taste
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 bay leaf
Instructions
- Place Great Northern beans into a large container and cover with several inches of cool water; let stand 8 hours to overnight. Drain water and transfer beans to a large stockpot.
- Mix ham hocks
- water
- celery
- onion
- carrot
- garlic
- thyme
- black pepper
- and bay leaf with beans in the stockpot; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer until ham is coming off the bones
- about 2 hours.
- Remove ham hocks from soup. Cut meat from bones
- discarding fat and bones. Return meat to the pot. Continue cooking until beans reach desired softness.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 2 hrs
Total Time: 10 hrs 20 mins
Servings: 8