Creating this Easy Ham and Cheese Sourdough Casserole for Dinner is hearty and filled with many health benefits.
Easy Ham and Cheese Sourdough Casserole for Dinner Video
Easy Ham and Cheese Sourdough Casserole for Dinner Tips
- First when you are eating Ham it must reach an cooked temperature of 160 degrees before serving.
- Note, You can eat ham cold but, make sure it is cooked.
- Ham sometime is bought precooked but, make sure before eating to ensure safety.
- I like to assume it is not cooked if not listed on the packaging.
- Use a meat thermometer in the center of the thickest part of the meat and does not touch bone or fat to obtain the most accurate temperature reading.
- Let your ham rest about fifteen minutes before carving because it usually is still cooking when it leaves the oven.
- Ham can be bought bone-in or boneless.
- For this recipe I like to buy boneless.
- Boneless ham can be bought whole, halves or slices. Boneless hams are easy to slice and that will prevent little waste.
- With left over ham; especially after Easter I like to make this Easy Ham and Cheese Sourdough Casserole for Dinner
- Why not a casserole in a slow cooker for dinner, it is easy and healthy.
Why a Sourdough Casserole
- Casseroles are a smart meal for time management. Casseroles have been around for thousands or years and became popular in the 1800’s. A casserole can consist of many ingredients including the benefits of sourdough.
- Casseroles are filled with so much flavor and usually include rice, noodles, potatoes and/or vegetables.
- This Easy Ham and Cheese Sourdough Casserole for Dinner is yummy, pair it with a salad and dinner is served!
What is Sourdough’s Benefits?
Sourdough has many health benefits, filled with many great benefits and an way to grow yeast to rise breads.
Sourdough starter develops from microscopic wild yeast and bacteria that is present in the air.
Probiotics are found in sourdough starter are live microbes that have health benefits that grow naturally within the environment.
Sourdough helps to relegate metabolism, helps relieve allergies, cancer protection and balances the immune system along with reducing inflammation.
Sourdough has been around for centuries as far back as the Egyptians.
This wild yeast is fermented naturally, leavened many breads and desserts. Sourdough adds a tangy, earthy taste to all baked goods and filled with many health benefits.
How to Make an Easy Sourdough Starter
What is Sourdough? How do you make sourdough starter? Well, all you do is add water and flour and let it stand till it sours.
In a room temperature glass container mix one cup of all-purpose organic unbleached flour (any flour of choice will work but, organic and unbeach it best) with 1 cup of filtered water.
Mix flour and water thoroughly, until it feels like a thick paste such as pancake batter.
Cover with a tea towel or cheese cloth and keep in a warm place around seventy degrees.
Twelve hour later remover a 1/2 cup and discard to save to make a discard recipe of feed livestock such as feeding the chicken or pigs.
Fed with additional 1/2 cup of all-purpose organic unbleached flour and 1/2 cup of filter water. Repeat this process for 5 days. On day six and seven fed every twenty-four hours. Your starter should have bubbles and the top will look foam-like.
Tips on Beginning Sourdough Starter
- Water quality is important.
- Do not use city water or water that is chemically treated because it will breakdown wild yeast within the sourdough.
- Use filtered water or bottled water.
- Sourdough Starter should be warm but not hot.
- A good starter to be around 70-80 degrees. If your home is cooler place by a fireplace or furnace.
- Check your humidity; because you need a moist starter that is hydrated.
- Cover your sourdough starter with cheese cloth or tea towel, secure with a rubber band. Covering your starter will help to keep pest out and prevent it from drying out.
- Bubbles in your starter is a great sign that your sourdough starter is alive and working.
- Texture of your sourdough starter should be tacky
- Smell of your sourdough starter will be sour.
- Sourdough must be feed daily, or it will go dormant or die.
- If you cannot feed your starter daily because of vacation, cover with an airtight lid and store in the refrigerator.
- When ready to use sourdough starter pull out about twenty-four hours beforehand. Feed your starter and use in twenty-four hours.
Easy Ham and Cheese Sourdough Casserole for Dinner Recipe
This Easy Ham and Cheese Sourdough Casserole is easy and hearty for dinner.
This slow cooker dinner is filled with fresh herbs along with farm fresh ham and cheese.
Finally, sourdough is gut friendly and great to add to your overall health.
A Healthy gut is important to fight viruses and bacteria infections and should be apart of your weekly meal planning.
Ingredients:
- 2 ½ cups of diced red skin potatoes· ( I leave my skins on for extra minerals)
- 1 pound of Organic Ham; diced·
- 1 cup of freshly, fed sourdough starter
- ½ cup of diced yellow onion·
- 2 cloves of garlic; diced·
- ¼ teaspoon of ground pepper·
- ¼ teaspoons of Himalayan sea salt·
- ½ teaspoon of ground paprika·
- 1/2 teaspoon of onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder
- ½ cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese·
- 1 cup of shredded medium cheddar cheese·
- 1/4 cup of fresh organic parsley
- Cooking spray
In a slow cooker spray the inside with cooking spray and set on low heat for 4-6 hours or high for 6-8 hours.
Next, in the slow cooker add all the ingredients except the paprika, parsley and the parmesan cheese.
The last 20 minutes sprinkle the paprika and parmesan cheese.
This is a Quick and Easy for a weeknight dinner favorite or perfect to make for any unused ham from the holiday such as Easter.
Prepare in the morning and it will be ready to go at dinner!
Easy Ham and Cheese Sourdough Casserole for Dinner
This easy Ham and Cheese Sourdough Casserole is easy and hearty for dinner. This slow cooker dinner is filled with fresh herbs and vegetables along with farm fresh ham and cheese. Finally, the sourdough is gut friendly and great to add to your overall health. A Healthy gut is important to fight viruses and bacteria infections and should be apart of your weekly meal planning.
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups of diced red skin potatoes· ( I leave my skins on for extra minerals)
- 1 pound of Organic Ham; diced·
- 1 cup of freshly, fed sourdough starter
- ½ cup of diced yellow onion·
- 2 cloves of garlic; diced·
- ¼ teaspoon of ground pepper·
- ¼ teaspoons of Himalayan sea salt·
- ½ teaspoon of ground paprika·
- 1/2 teaspoon of onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder
- ½ cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese·
- 1 cup of shredded medium cheddar cheese·
- 1/4 cup of fresh organic parsley
- Cooking spray
Instructions
In a slow cooker spray the inside with cooking spray and set on low heat for 4-6 hours or high for 6-8 hours.
Next, in the slow cooker add all the ingredients except the paprika, parsley and the parmesan cheese. The last 20 minutes sprinkle the paprika and parmesan cheese. This is a Quick and Easy for a weeknight dinner favorite or perfect to make for any unused ham from the holiday such as Easter. Prepare in the morning and it will be ready to go at dinner!
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