Easy Slow Cooker Ham & Bean Soup Recipe

Sara @MomEndeavors
December 29, 2020

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This easy slow cooker ham & bean soup recipe is the perfect way to use holiday ham leftovers! It’s a delicious soup recipe that comes together SO quickly and is one whole family will love!

Easy to Make

I LOVE a recipe that comes together easily in the slow cooker! Soups are perfect for that – just throw everything in the crock pot and let it go. This one is especially great for using up leftover ham. Ham is such a common main dish at so many holidays throughout the year, often leaving you with a ham bone and/or the back end of your spiral cut ham. So you can make this dish with those ham bone leftovers to really get the most of out your ham! It’s probably not a big surprise then that I tend to make a big batch of this soup after Christmas and after Easter! It serves up great with a side of cornbread – YUM!!!!

Making Ham & Bean Soup

Making this soup is SOOooo easy! You just chop up the ham & veggies and you’re all set! That’s it. There’s really not much too it! You just dump everything in the crock pot and let it go. This recipe even uses canned beans to keep it simple! Super easy!

Which beans are best for ham and bean soup?

You really can’t go wrong with white beans (Cannellini, Great Northern, or Navy) or pinto beans. I’ve made this recipe multiple times with whatever canned white bean or pinto beans I have on hand. It’s really just a matter of personal flavor preference or convenience with whatever you have on hand.

Time Saving Tips

In addition to canned beans (versus soaking and cooking dry beans), you can save tine even further by using frozen chopped onion and frozen sliced carrots. I try to keep a couple of bags of both in my freezer because they are SOOoooo easy for throwing together in soups! Fresh minced garlic in the fridge is another convenience item that you can use in this too!

Yum! Doesn’t that look good?! It’s super tasty and filling without being overly hearty or rich! And we love how it’s a way to use up that holiday ham!

For more recipes using ham, check out:

10+ Recipes using Leftover Ham
Loaded Baked Potato Casserole

Worried you’re going to be sick of ham too quickly? Then save & freeze the ham bone! You can then use that ham bone to make the soup anytime! Perfect and easy!

Here’s the printable Slow Cooker Ham & Bean Soup recipe:

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