This easy ham bone soup makes good use of leftover holiday ham. I always add the three basics: onion, celery, and carrots. In addition, you can add a variety of different vegetables to suit your taste or use what you have in the house at the time.
Hearty Ham Bone Soup
This easy ham bone soup makes good use of leftover holiday ham. I always add the three basics: onion, celery, and carrots. In addition, you can add a variety of different vegetables to suit your taste or use what you have in the house at the time.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons bacon grease
- 1 large onion diced
- 2 carrots peeled and diced
- 3 stalks celery diced
- 2 cloves garlic crushed
- 3 medium potatoes diced
- 8 cups hot water
- 8 cubes chicken bouillon
- 1 ham bone
- 14 ounce can diced tomatoes
- 16 ounce package frozen corn
- 8 ounce can tomato sauce
- 1 teaspoon black pepper or to taste
- pinch of salt or to taste
Instructions
- Gather all ingredients.
- Melt bacon grease in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir onion, carrots, celery, and garlic in hot bacon grease until vegetables are slightly tender and fragrant, about 5 minutes.
- Stir potatoes into onion mixture; cook and stir until golden, about 10 minutes.
- Stir hot water and chicken bouillon together in a slow cooker until bouillon is dissolved; add onion mixture, ham bone, diced tomatoes, corn, tomato sauce, black pepper, and salt.
- Cook soup in the slow cooker set to Low for 4 to 6 hours. Remove ham bone from soup and let rest until cool enough to handle. Remove meat from ham bone and stir meat into soup.
