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A black bowl filled with a hearty soup on a wooden table. The soup has a creamy texture with visible pieces of meat and is garnished with chopped parsley and a parsley leaf in the center.

Traditional Scottish Lentil Soup with Ham Hough

This has gotta be up there with my most popular recipe posts, so since I was batch cooking a whole lot of soups to stock the freezer for winter time ❄️ it seemed only right that I recorded a video to update it.
If you haven’t tried this recipe - get on it 😉 and if you have, then please let others know in the comments if you like it (or love it)
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 50 minutes
Course Appetiser, Soup, Starter
Cuisine Scottish
Servings 8 Servings
Calories 225 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients
  

  • 300 g lentils
  • 1 ham hough
  • 4 ham stock cubes
  • 3 litres water
  • ½ swede
  • 2 carrots
  • 2 onions
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 large handful parsley

Instructions
 

  • Rinse out 300 g lentils with water, until the water is clear after rinsing ⁣(you can leave them soaking for 30 mins then rinse if you want but not necessary - refer to step-by-step process section above)
  • Grate ½ swede and 2 carrots, finely chop 2 onions and add to large soup pot2 onions
  • Dissolve 4 ham stock cubes in ⁣3 litres water (boiling)
  • Add 1 ham hough, 2 bay leaves and prepared ham stock to the pot with the vegetables
  • Add rinsed lentils to the pot
  • Place lid on the pot and cook on medium heat for approx 2-2.5 hours ⁣
  • After 2-2.5 hours cooking time, remove the ham hock from the pot to shred it.
  • Whilst it's hot - remove the outer fat and strip meat from bone in chunks. Once it's cooled down - break up into shreds with hands/fingers⁣ (or chop using a knife if you prefer).
  • Add 1 large handful parsley (chopped) to soup pot
  • Then use potato masher (yep, that trusty utensil!) to mash up your soup to achieve desired consistency ⁣

Nutrition

Calories: 225kcalCarbohydrates: 27gProtein: 16gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 23mgSodium: 571mgPotassium: 549mgFiber: 12gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 2575IUVitamin C: 6mgCalcium: 52mgIron: 3mg
Keyword ham hough, lentil and ham hock soup, lentil and ham hough soup, lentil soup recipe, traditional lentil soup
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