I was seeking for a ham bone recipe that wouldn’t require the rich cream of a potato soup. I combined a couple other recipes to create one I felt my husband and I would enjoy. Starting with the three fundamentals—onion, celery, and carrots—is crucial, in my opinion. Additionally, you can add a variety of vegetables based on your preferences or what is currently available in the kitchen.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 4 hrs 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 4 hrs 30 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons bacon grease
- 1 large onion, diced
- 2 carrots, peeled and diced
- 3 stalks celery, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 3 potatoes, diced
- 8 cups hot water
- 8 cubes chicken bouillon
- 1 ham bone
- 1 (14 ounce) can diced tomatoes
- ½ (16 ounce) package frozen corn
- 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 87 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 19 g |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 0 g |
| Sodium | 1039 mg |
| Sugars | 4 g |
| Fat | 0 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Loved it! I just made it a couple of weeks ago and I’m making it again! I used olive oil instead of bacon grease and left out the tomato sauce. Delicious!!
This soup is even better the next day! I left out the corn because my husband doesn’t like corn. We didn’t have a lot of meat on the ham bone, so we added some diced leftover ham at the end of cooking. I used salt free chicken stock in a box and it was not salty as some have mentioned. We cut this recipe in half because there are only two of us. I will make this again.
Very tasty recipe, I’ve made this twice and loved it both times. This is a nice change from pea or bean soups.
Very popular in my wife’s family. Everyone saves me the ham bone now after Easter/other events so I can make this for them. I think next time I make it though, I will try just using chicken broth instead of bouillon, mostly just for convenience. I find I have to dissolve the bouillon in another pot, and between that and the pan to fry up the vegetables, this uses too many pots and pans for a slow cooker recipe for my liking.
Simple and good flavor. Also substituted stewed tomatoes for diced.
It was nice to use up a ham bone on something besides beans. I used a food processor to slice the raw veggies and did not precook them; but rather set the crock pot on high rather than low.
Tasted great. Added some diced green pepper.
Added rutabaga and slow cooker chicken broth. I added a ham bone to the broth. When serving I put chunks of ham or chicken in the bottom of the soup bowl as H prefers some meat with his soup. This soup was a great way to serve vegetables to him. In the past, when I suggested we eat more vegetables, he has not been enthusiastic. This year I decided to cook with more vegetables and not say anything. Now four months into it, he is commenting on how good the vegetables are. Like the shoe company says, just do it.
This ham bone soup turned out great. I cooked the ham bone for about 4 hours. Added the carrots, potatoes, corn, and a bit more ham at the end and cooked about 30 more minutes. I didn’t want the potatoes to get too mushy. Linda
At first I thought that this soup was Ok until the next day. This is definitely one of those soups that tastes much better the next day! Thanks!
Followed the recipe pretty close. Only changes were I sautéed the onion & garlic in olive oil, used 8 cups chicken broth and added all other ingredients except the potato and corn. I added those when the carrots were half done along with a can of Italian cut green beans. The diced tomatoes I used was the chili ready for a little spice. Soup was delicious.
Absolutely delicious
Hubby liked it find but I thought this needed more seasonings, maybe some cayenne pepper, cumin, something? I used no salt or products with salt since we have high blood pressure, maybe that was the reason I thought it was bland.
Perfect …. used 1 box (32 oz) of chic broth /1 box (32oz) veg broth added green pepper/barley/red cabbage/green beans and Italian seasoning. So versatile just dump whatever you have on hand. Love this
Turned out great!!!!??
I used home made stewed tomatoes, no corn or potatoes (carbs), turnips instead and romano beans It was delicious
I never made soup before. This was easy and really good.
Very easy to make and tasted wonderful
Oh my–this was such a delicious soup! This is a definite keeper!! Just dumped it all in the crock pot for 8 hours. So easy!
I added rutebega, noodles, and barley, and used larger cans of sauce and whole tomatoes….just my personal preference as my mom made it that way. Glad you published this recipe as it tastes exactly like hers….will definitely make this again!
Used what I had on hand. Substituted 1 can creamed corn instead of frozen corn. Substituted olive oil for bacon grease. Cooked on stove top in large pan, simmered. Thank you for this recipe!