🇭🇺 Hungarian Ham and Bean Soup (Sonkás Bableves)

🧾 Ingredients:

• 300 g dried beans (soaked overnight) or 2 cans beans (drained)
• 300 g smoked ham (or ham hock, diced)
• 1 large onion (chopped)
• 2 cloves garlic (minced)
• 2 carrots (sliced)
• 1 parsley root or parsnip (optional, chopped)
• 2 tbsp oil or lard
• 1–2 tbsp Hungarian sweet paprika
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tsp black pepper
• Salt (to taste)
• 1–1.5 liters water or broth
• 100 ml sour cream (optional, for serving)