SFoodie: Lentil Soup with Braised Ham Hock
Every day, Chef John from Food Wishes tries to fix our crappy diet with badass recipes. Today, muthufuckin lentils, baby! Woo-hoo, yeah! -d2
You can't stop the Hock!
By Chef John from Food Wishes Video Recipes
This was a viewer request from a while ago for an easy lentil soup recipe. The key ingredient for my version is the smoked, and amazingly delicious, “ham hock.” For those of you not familiar with this piece of pork, here’s what Wikipedia had to say (It’s Friday and I was feeling too lazy to actually explain what a hock was myself).
From Wikipedia: “A ham "hock" is the end of a smoked ham where the foot was attached to the hog's leg. It is the portion of the leg that is neither part of the ham proper nor...
the foot or ankle, but rather the extreme shank end of the leg bone and the associated skin, fat, tendons, and muscle. This piece is generally comprised of too much skin and gristle to be palatable on its own, so it is largely used to be cooked with greens and other vegetables in order to give them additional flavor (generally that of pork fat and smoke), although the meat from particularly meaty hocks may be removed and served.”
If you’re new to soup making, this is a great one to start with since it’s almost impossible to screw up! It’s also very affordable. A little bit of lentils and ham hock goes a long way, and you can feed a very large group for just a few dollars.
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