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Bacon and Lentil hotpot/casserole

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  • harrie_2
    harrie_2 Posts: 1,582 Forumite
    Keith wrote:
    Whats a Ham Hock? I'm looking to make a Pea & Ham soup, and its listed as one of the main ingreidents, I've no idea what this is and I've never shopped in a butchers before! Can I get on in one of the big supermarket? Help!
    another word for it is ham shank get it in morrissons dicksons butchers other butchers do them
  • squeaky
    squeaky Posts: 14,129 Forumite
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    It's the upper part of the leg. From a link collected under "meat" in the Cooking section of the MEGA Index...

    http://thefoody.com/basic/pork.html
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  • Looking forward to this recipe when it arrives...........in the mean time (not really OT) someone once gave me chorizo and green lentil casserole - has anyone got a recipe for this???
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  • ymcas
    ymcas Posts: 91 Forumite
    Well I just used bacon offcuts, red lentils, chopped carrot, onions and potato + a tin of tomatos and some stock... left it in the sc all day and it was good. Very different to our normal sc fayre of beef or lamb. Thanks to all the replies.
  • libra10
    libra10 Posts: 19,532 Forumite
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    My local Kwik Save had ham shanks the other day. Made a stonking ham & pea soup. Really delicious and cheap
  • Keith
    Keith Posts: 2,924 Forumite
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    Keith wrote:
    Then today I went to make the soup but didn't know if to use the stock from cooking the ham, but i skimmed it and put the veg in anyway and its cooking now, it looks nothing like my mum used to make!


    And the finished article was completely different too, a very dark green with a strange taste, the ham was lovely though, my first attempt at dumplins also failed :( Oh well, another try at it next week, going to use a few more vegetables as we only used Pea, carrot and onion today
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