Fiber Rich 7 Bean And Barley Soup Recipe 435

Steps:

• Cover your bean soup mix with water and soak overnight. In food processor with metal blade, turn on, and add your galic in chute until garlic is minced. Quarter your onion and add to food processor and pulse just till chopped. Add your 1 Tablespoon olive oil to a large soup pot. Add your minced galic and chopped onion. Saute for 2-3 minutes. Add your chopped carrots, and saute for another 2-3 minutes. Add your drained bean mix to pot and add 3 cups water and the 32 oz. box of vegetable broth. Add the ham hocks. Bring to boil, turn heat to low, and simmer for 2 hours. Add your diced potatoes and spices. Remove your ham hocks and let cool. When cool get the "good" ham meat off the bones and cut up and add to your soup. Cook for additional 20 minutes. Correct your spices and add more water if soup gets to thick. Just when done we add canadles (dumplings). Recipe is in description.

Steps:

• Place barley into a bowl and cover with several inches of cool water; let stand for 1 hour. Drain.
• Heat the oil in a heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium-high heat. Add pancetta and cook until slightly crisp, about 3 or 4 minutes. Stir onion, carrot, and celery into pancetta and cook until vegetables are slightly softened, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Mix half of the beans into vegetable-pancetta mixture and pour in enough water to cover; stir in barley and remaining beans. Season mixture with salt and pepper. Bring liquid to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for 40 minutes, stirring regularly and adding more water if soup gets too thick.
• Remove saucepan from heat and allow to sit for 5 minutes. Serve soup with rosemary leaves and a drizzle of olive oil.

Steps:

• Place beans in a Dutch oven or soup kettle; add enough water to cover beans by 2 in. Bring to a boil; boil for 2 minutes. Remove from heat; cover and let stand 1 hour. Drain and rinse beans, discarding liquid. , In a Dutch oven, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; cook and stir until tender, 3-5 minutes. Stir in broth, water, beans, carrots, red peppers, celery, barley, 1/4 cup parsley, bay leaves, salt, thyme and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 1 hour or until beans are tender. Add tomatoes; heat through. Discard bay leaves. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup parsley.

Steps:

• Combine ingredients in Dutch oven or large deep skillet.
• Bring to boil on medium heat 10 min., stirring occasionally. Cover.
• Simmer on medium-low heat 15 min. or until vegetables are crisp-tender, stirring occasionally.