Ham Bones, uses?

Question

What are some good uses for a spiral ham bone after the meat has been removed?

Answer 1

Soup
Stock

Answer 2

Get some split peas and soak them in water for 2 hrs while you boil the ham bone. Take out the bone and after rinsing the peas in cold water add them to the water and meat in the pot with a chopped onion and a diced carrot or two and a few quartered potatoes if you like. Simmer for about an hour or until the peas are soft.

Answer 3

Cook the bone with some green beans and potatoes. Even better if you throw in some left over meat. This makes a great one-dish meal.

Or just cook with green beans, and serve as a side dish.

Cook off the bone and use the broth in homemade baked beans. Gives them a much richer flavor.

Make soup. Bean, we like great northern best, or around here we can get a dried bean mix called New Year's Day Soup. Or split pea soup. Or lentil.

Answer 4

U.S. Capital Bean Soup

1 pound dry white beans, soaked overnight (or quick soaked)
1 meaty ham bone or 2 smoked ham hocks
3 quarts water
3 onions, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
4 stalks celery, with leaves, finely chopped
1/4 cup parsley, finely chopped
[Senate version: add 1 cup cooked mashed potatoes]
salt and pepper to taste
Garnish: minced parsley or chives

Strain the water from the soaked beans and put in a big pot with 3 quarts of water and the ham bone or ham hocks. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours.

Stir the chopped vegetables and herbs into the pot--and also the mashed potatoes if you're cooking the Senate version--and cook over low heat for another hour--until the beans are nicely tender.

Remove the bones from the pot--cut off the meat into small bits and return the meat to the pot, discarding the bones.

When ready to serve, ladle into bowls and garnish with pinches of herbs. For "U.S. House of Representative Bean Soup" authenticity, crush a few of the beans in each bowl to thicken the broth and make it slightly opaque.

Answer 5

Absolutely great for making stock - simmer with some root vegetables (parsnips, carrots, turnips, whatever's going); you may find that you've got a few more bits of meat left, and you have the basis for any number of great home-made soups, or which ham and pea is one of the best known but there are loads and loads of others. (Don't add salt until you've tasted it).

You'd be surprised how many people absolutely love a bowl of home-made soup even though the effort involved is minimal.

Answer 6

Black Bean Soup
Split Pea Soup

Toss them into just about any kind of soup.

Answer 7

wow, their great for cooking any type dry beans, great northern, navy, and any of the brown beans, pinto, cranberry. Just add to beans after they have been soaked in water and cook. The flavor is unbelievable.

Answer 8

Makes great soup stock or a stock for making jambalaya.

Answer 9

split pea soup, that is what we buy the ham for

Answer 10

Pinto beans.