Ham Bone and Vegetable Soup

I was looking for a good use of a ham bone without the heavy cream of a potato soup. I made use of a few other recipes to come up with one that I thought my husband and I would like. I think it is important to start with the three basics: onion, celery, and carrots. In addition, you can add a variety of different vegetables to suit your taste or depending on what you have in the house at the time.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 4 hr
• Total Time: 4 hr 10 mins
• Calories: 87 Calories

Ingredients

• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 large onion, diced
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 3 stalks celery, diced
• 1 ham bone
• 3 potatoes, diced
• 8 cubes chicken bouillon
• 2 tablespoons bacon grease
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 (14 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 2 carrots, peeled and diced
• 8 cups hot water
• ½ (16 ounce) package frozen corn

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

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.

Step 2

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.

Step 3

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.