Easy Recipe for Canning Delicious Ham and Bean Soup
This easy recipe for canning delicious ham and bean soup is a great example of awesome things that you can preserve in jars and have on your shelf ready to eat. This simple recipe is very easy to make, just add ingredients to a jar and put in the pressure canner. It does not require cooking the beans, just some chopping up of the ham and vegetables. It is also a great way to use up that leftover holiday ham!
It makes a hearty soup that is wonderful on a cold winter day or any day really. I enjoy taking my jars of ready to eat meals to work for lunch. Canning soup is one of the best things about learning how to can! I include my favorite soups that I can below.
Ingredients for Making the Delicious Ham and Bean Soup for Canning
This recipe makes 4 quarts
- 3 cups of dry great northern beans
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 cup chopped carrots
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 2 cups chopped ham
- 8 Tbsp potato flakes (Instant Mashed Potatoes)
- 4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 8 cups chicken or ham broth
Detailed Steps for Making the Delicious Ham and Bean Soup for Canning
Rinse the white dry beans. Place 3/4 cup white dry beans in each quart jar. Dry navy beans or pinto beans or any preferred kind of beans can be used. Chop up the ham, celery, carrots and onions.
Place 1/2 cup of the ham pieces and 1/4 cup each of celery, carrots and onion into each quart jar. These amount can be adjusted for taste. Add 2 tablespoons of potato flakes and 1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce to each jar. Black pepper and salt can be added as preferred.
Then add enough ham or chicken broth to fill each jar to 1-inch head space.
Wipe rim of the jar, remove the air bubbles, and place lids and screw bands on the jars.
Ham and beans are low-acid foods and required to be canned using a pressure canning process. See my article on beginners guide to canning for a complete guide on canning.
Place the hot canning jars into the pressure canner and process according to your canner’s manufacturer’s instructions. Process quarts for 90 minutes. This recipe can also be easily halved basically for pints and the process time for pints is 75 minutes.
I use the NESCO Electric Pressure Canner. I have included step by step instructions on how to use the NESCO Electric Canner on my website.
When the canning process is complete and the canner has had time to depressurize, remove the hot jars with a jar lifter and place jars on a dish towel on the counter and do not disturb for 24 hours.
Enjoy the Delicious Results!
This homemade canned ham and bean soup has such delicious flavor!
Home food preservation with home canning is such a great way to save on the grocery store and have shelf stable and healthy meals and other food ready to eat in your pantry.
Homemade soups are one of my favorite things to eat and home-canned soups are one of my favorite things to can. Some of my soup canning recipes include:
- Beef Stew
- French Onion Soup
- Chicken Soup
- Corned Beef, Cabbage and Potatoes (although not an actual soup, can be eaten like one!)
I plan to post my recipe for canned black bean soup soon!
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Canning Recipe for Ham and Bean Soup
This easy recipe for canning delicious ham and bean soup is a great example of awesome things that you can preserve in jars and have on your shelf ready to eat. This simple recipe is very easy to make, just add ingredients to a jar and put in the pressure canner. It does not require cooking the beans, just some chopping up of the ham and vegetables. It is also a great way to use up that leftover holiday ham!It makes a hearty soup that is wonderful on a cold winter day or any day.
Ingredients
- 3 cups of dry Great Northern beans
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 cup chopped carrots
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 2 cups chopped ham
- 8 Tbsp. potato flakes (Instant Mashed Potatoes)
- 4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 8 cups chicken or ham broth
Instructions
- Rinse the dry beans. Any type of preferred bean can be used, such as navy or pinto
- Add 3/4 cup of the beans to each jar
- Add 1/2 cup of chopped ham pieced to each jar
- Add 1/4 cup each of chopped celery, carrots and onions to each jar. The amount can be adjusted for preference
- Add 2 tablespoons of potato flakes and 1 tsp of Worcestershire sauce to each jar
- Add boiling ham or chicken broth to each jar until reaches 1-inch headspace
- Wipe the rims of the jars and add the canning lids
- Process in a pressure canner for 90 minutes for quarts. The recipe can be halved for pints which are processed for 75 minutes
- When the canning process time is complete and the canner has had time to depressurize, remove the hot jars with a jar lifter and place the canning jars of hot beans on a dish towel on the counter and do not disturb them for 24 hours.
Can I ask you, what are flakes of potato? I am Dutch and in translation this does not go well. Is it small pieces op potato?
That is a very good question and I immediately went and clarified that in the recipe. It is just instant mashed potatoes. Thanks for the comment!
No not pieces of potatoes. Instant potatoes, dried potatoes. I hope that helps
Can I add diced potatoes also or in place of the celery?
I may have missed It but what is the pressure weight for the canner?
Yes, since you can pressure can potatoes, that will be ok. I am not sure about the pressure weight, it will be whatever the manufacturer of your pressure canner recommends. I’m sorry I cannot be more specific. I use an Electric pressure canner. Thanks for the comment and for checking out my recipe!
When you use your electric pressure canner, do you just put in the time? Is the pounds of pressure automatic?
Yes it is, that is why I like using it, super easy! I have never used the regular type of pressure canner. Here is a link to a post I wrote (my first one) on how to use the NESCO electric canner
https://hawkpointhomestead.com/how-to-use-the-nesco-electric-pressure-canner/?
Can I add corn or tomatoes ? This sounds like a soup my aunt used to make
I would think you could since you are pressure canning, but I do not know how it would turn out.
It would be 10 pounds of pressure if you are using a weight regulator or 11 if you are using a pressure gauge.And I’m definitely trying this recipe!!!
Thank you!
I have two Nesco canners and I purchased a third that was damaged for parts. I also have a regular canner that I have not used since I purchased the Nesco canner. I agree with you it’s so easy to use.
Thank you! I have two! And love them! I really think it makes it easy to pressure can.
What are the instant potatoes and Worcestershire sauce for? I usually have a tomato base in my ham and bean soup.
The instant potatoes are for thickening and the Worcestershire sauce are for taste. You do not have to add either if you prefer not too. If you want it tomato based, you can add tomato sauce or whatever you think would provide the tomato base best.