Mom's Vegetable Soup with Ham Bone

By á-1554

Make your own homemade vegetable soup, starting with a big ham bone! Add other vegetables, to your preference. This is a classic vegetable soup recipe with beans, carrots and potatoes.

Ingredients

• 1 large ham bone
• 1/2 cup navy beans
• 1/2 cup lima beans
• 1 package dried vegetable soup mix, like Manischewitz Vegetable Soup Mix With Mushrooms
• 1 (14.5-ounce) can whole tomatoes, mashed
• A few peppercorns
• 1 small onion, diced
• 4 to 5 carrots, diced
• 4 to 5 red skinned potatoes, in 1" cubes

Preparation

Step 1

In a large pot, place the ham bone and cover it with water. Bring the water to boil, then turn it down to a simmer. Add the navy and lima beans and the vegetable soup mix and cook for about 1 hour.

Add the tomatoes, onions, peppercorns, carrots and potatoes and continue to simmer the soup for an additional 1 1/2 hours. Remove the ham bone and pull any meat you'd like off of the bone and add to the soup. Serve hot.