Pork Hock, Lentil & Corn Soup

A good soup for a cool fall/winter day. I like a bit of heat with the pork and lentils. It gives the soup a bit of character and really jacks up the warming effect of the soup. The soup would work just as well without the dried chilli peppers but I would use peppercorns to still provide a bit of warmth.

I used three different chillies here as I had them in on hand. You could just go with cayenne as they are more common.

Ingredient	Cal	Fat	Carb	Pro
1 Pork Hock (1.8kg - yeild 750g meat)	1369	69		174
5 carrots, 1 inch pieces (288g)	118	0.7	28	3
5 celery, 1 inch pieces (391g)	55	0.7	13	3
3 onions, cut into 8ths (700g)	294	0.6	71	6
1 bulb garlic (45g)	67	0.2	15	3
2 dried cayenne peppers
3 dried d'Arbol peppers
2 dried japone peppers
6 bay leaves
6 cobs of corn (yeild 847g)	686	9	158	22
1 1/4 cup dried brown lentils (278g)	981	3	167	72
10 cups water

Total: Calories: 3570, Fat: 83g, Carbs: 451g, Protein: 283
Yield 12, 2 cup servings

Per Serving: Calories: 298, Fat: 7g, Carbs: 38g, Protein: 24g

Directions

Pork Hock

Stock ready to go with chillies on top

1. put the pork hock in a stock pot with the carrots, celery, onion, whole garlic cloves, dried peppers, bay leaves, corn cobs (after the kernels have been removed) and 10 cups water. Bring to a boil and let simmer until the pork hock falls apart, 3-5 hours depending on the size of your hock.

2. Remove the hock from the pot. Remove and discard the bay leaves. Strain the remaining stock reserving the vegetables and dried peppers.

Shredded Pork Meat

3. Refrigerate the stock allow the pork fat to solidify

Stock with solidified pork fat

4. Puree the vegetables and dried peppers, adding a little of the stock if necessary

5. Remove the meat from the hock and shred, discard the skin, fat & bones from the hock

6. Combine pork meat, stock & lentils in a soup pot. Bring to a boil & simmer until the lentils are soft.

7. Add the vegetable puree and reserved corn kernels and let stand for a few minutes. You may have to add some additional chicken stock or water.