Foods Slow cooker Navy Bean Soup is a great meal idea for busy days and leftover days. It’s so flavorful and tasty! The perfect cozy comfort food.
Stop! Before you throw out that ham bone, you can get even more deliciousness out of it. Just like any other bones from chicken, turkey, or beef—that you can extract both delicious and nourishing bone broth from—ham bones also have nutrients in them. In fact, ham bones may be my very favorite type of bone broth. I find them to be much more rich and flavorful than other meat bones.
If you don’t know the benefits of bone broth, I’d encourage you to read up on bone broth here.
One of my favorite things to make with my ham bones is navy bean soup. It’s easy, cheap, and the whole family loves it. Throw together some beans, a ham bone, spices, and some veggies and you’ve got dinner!
Slow Cooker Navy Bean Soup
Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoon olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 medium yellow onion
- ½ pound carrots
- 4 stalks celery
- 1 pound dry navy beans you do not need to soak these overnight
- 1 ham bone or 2-3 smoked ham hocks
- 1 whole bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon dried rosemary
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ½ teaspoon smoked paprika
- ½ teaspoon Freshly cracked pepper
- 1½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- First, add navy beans to a pot and boil 10 minutes.
- While beans are boiling, mince the garlic, dice the onion, slice the celery, and slice the carrots into thin rounds.
- Add olive oil, garlic, onion, celery, and carrots to a large slow cooker.
- Drain the beans and sort through them, and remove any debris or stones.
- Quickly rinse the beans and add them to the slow cooker, along with the bay leaf, rosemary, thyme, paprika, and some freshly cracked pepper and ham bone or ham hocks.
- Add six cups of water to the slow cooker. Stir carefully to combine the ingredients.
- Place the lid on the slow cooker and cook for 8 hours on low or on high for 4-5 hours.
- After 8 hours, stir the soup and mash the beans slightly just to thicken up the soup to your desired consistency.
- Add salt starting with just a ½ teaspoon at a time. I used about 1½ teaspoon total, but keep tasting and adding more, ½ teaspoon at a time, until it reaches the level you prefer.
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I hope your family loves this navy bean soup recipe as much as we do!
More Comforting & Healthy Soup Recipes:
- Cheesy Bacon Lentil Stew
- Curried Sweet Potato Soup
- Slow Cooker Vegetable Soup
- Easy, Cheesy Vegetable Chowder
- Slow Cooker Taco Soup
Will be trying this soon. Thanks for sharing at Let’s Get Real Link Party.
Yum! Can’t wait to try it, thanks for sharing 🙂
Oh my goodness this looks so yummy! I especially love your foodtography 🙂 Totally pinning! xo
Thank you!