15 Bean Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Place beans in a large container and cover with several inches of cool water; let stand 8 hours to overnight. Drain and rinse.
• Heat olive oil in a stockpot over medium heat; cook and stir onion until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Add carrots, mushrooms, celery, kale, chard, and garlic; cook and stir until carrots and mushrooms are slightly tender, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Pour broth over vegetable mixture and bring to a boil; reduce heat and add bay leaves, rosemary, basil, salt, and pepper. Add beans and simmer soup until beans are softened, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

Steps:

• Wash the beans; put in large pot and cover with water. Bring to boil; stir and remove from heat. Cover and let sit 1 hour. After that hour, drain beans and set aside.
• Add oil to pot. Sauté your ham hocks, onion, and celery until tender.
• Next add garlic and sauté 2 minutes more.
• Add your beans and cover with water (about 2 inches over top of beans).
• Add tomatoes with the juice, parsley, rosemary, black pepper, bouillon cubes, and about 1 teaspoon of salt to start with.
• Mix well. Bring to boil; stir, reduce heat cover and simmer for 2 to 21/2 hours or until all the sizes of the beans are tender.
• Keep watching it and stirring it every once in a while. You may need to add more water; you want it to keep a consistency a little thicker than a soup.
• Taste it after it cooks--you may need more salt or pepper.
• During the last 15 minutes of cooking, add the flavor package that comes with the beans.
• Serve by itself or over rice.

Steps:

• Place beans in strainer and rinse.
• After rinsing, place beans in bowl and cover completely with water. After a couple of hours, rinse and refill water level.
• Soak overnight.
• Next day, rinse beans and place in crock pot.
• Combine all ingredients except sausage.
• Cover.
• Cook on low heat for 6 hours.
• Saute cubed sausage in pan.
• Put sausage and drippings, if any, in soup.
• Continue cooking on low for another 2 hours.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Soak beans overnight or by the "quicksoak method" as listed on the back of most bags of beans.
• Drain the beans and place in large pot with 2 quarts of water.
• Add the ham hock and bacon and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 2 1/2 hours add water as necessary.
• Remove hamhock and shred meat from the bone, returning meat to the pot.
• Add the remaining ingredients and simmer for another 45-60 min or until beans are cooked to your liking.