Holiday Spiral Ham and Lima Bean Soup
Leftover spiral ham is the gift that keeps on giving this holiday season, simmered slowly with lima beans into this deeply flavorful soup.
Place lima beans in a large bowl and cover with several inches of water; soak 8 hours to overnight.
Bring water ham bone and onion to a boil in a pot.
Reduce heat cover and simmer until onion is tender about 1 hour.
Drain and rinse lima beans and add to the pot with the ham bone.
Add brown sugar Worcestershire sauce hot sauce dry mustard and salt.
Simmer covered about 2 hours.
Uncover and continue simmering soup until beans are tender about 30 minutes more.
Remove ham bone from soup; cut the meat into bite-sized pieces.
Discard bone and return meat to the soup.