Description
This is a recipe i came up with a few years ago when i had a leftover ham bone from dinner, and it's wonderfully tasty. Good for using the leftovers after christmas or easter dinners. Serve with good, crusty bread and be ready to provide seconds. 🙂
Ingredients
- Ham Bone
- Water
- Butter
- Flour
- Milk
- Frozen Corn
- Dried Onion Flakes
- Garlic
- Salt And Pepper
- Paprika
Instructions
- On a firm non-breakable surface, take a clean hammer and crack the middle of the ham bone so that marrow can escape during cooking
- Place ham bone flat in the bottom of a pot and add enough water to just cover
- Simmer over medium heat for 30 minutes
- Remove bone and cut off the remaining tender ham meat
- Set meat aside
- Turn up the heat on the ham broth and reduce down until you have about a couple of cups of broth, or to desired strength
- Skim the fat from the broth
- Melt butter in a large pan
- Remove from heat and mix in flour until smooth
- Slowly add 1 cup milk, stirring constantly
- Return pan to stove and cook on low heat until milk thickens
- Stir the corn, the ham pieces you set aside earlier, dried minced onion, and minced garlic into thickened milk
- Then slowly stir in the remaining milk and the ham broth
- Cook on low for about 15 minutes, but do not boil
- Add salt, pepper, and paprika to taste
- Optional: you can add a cup of cooked, chopped potato chunks to the soup near the end of the cooking, if you like