Posted by david on 27. January 2009 17:20
this came out pretty good … I worked from a recipe found at this blog, his third attempt at the recipe.
& modified a little:
1 hams shank ( my grocer didn’t have a ham hock, but he said this would work the same )
2 cans light red beans (rinsed)
1 can black beans (rinsed)
tab of butter
3 slices bacon, cut into thirds
2-3 tbs finely minced green pepper
2-3 tbs finely minced onion ( I just realized I forgot the onion when i cooked this )
1 tbs finely minced shallot
beef broth to keep everything wet.
drop tab of butter into a pot, render the bacon. Pull bacon out when done and set aside.
drop the pepper and onion and shallot mix into the pot, cook till soft. strip off some of the meat of the ham shank & thrown the meat & bone into the pot. add the beans. qtr tsp of salt. add some broth till things are soupy, to give the shank something to dissolve into. mash up some of the beans with the back of a spoon. bring it all to a boil then set it down to the lowest & let sit for at least an hour. add broth if things start getting too thick.
I also added a few splashes of chipotle tabasco.
Pull out the ham bones when the meat has fallen off & any too big hunks of fat.
The shank produced a surprising amount of meat.
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