Moms Bean Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Place dry beans and 3 cups of water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, cover, remove from heat, and allow to stand for 1 hour. Drain and rinse beans.
• Place 3 more cups fresh water into a large pressure cooker. Add the soaked beans and ham bone, and stir in parsley, bay leaves, dried onion flakes, garlic, thyme, dry mustard, chili powder, and paprika. Seal the pressure cooker, and heat to 15 pounds per square inch. Cook under pressure for 7 minutes; add 1 minute for every 1,000 feet above sea level. Remove from heat, and allow pressure to subside naturally.
• When pressure has reduced, open the lid of the cooker. Stir in 5 more cups of water, celery, olive oil, tomato puree, ketchup, chicken soup base, molasses, brown sugar, and cracked black pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer the soup until the beans are tender, about 45 minutes. Stir in shell pasta, and simmer until the pasta is tender, about 15 more minutes.

Steps:

• 1. Go though navy beans and wash .soak beans over night.
• 2. In a large kettle, add drained beans, pork hocks, onion, and celery.
• 3. Cover with water and chicken broth.
• 4. Bring to a boil uncovered then turn down and simmer for about an hour.
• 5. Remove hocks from kettle let cool till you can take meat from bone.
• 6. Add meat back in kettle.
• 7. Add carrots and potatoes continue to simmer uncovered for another hour.
• 8. Add water to small sauce pan and bring to boil.
• 9. Whisk eggs slightly add 1 teaspoon of water.
• 10. Add flour to eggs a little at a time till you have a sticky dough.
• 11. Using a kitchen knife slide a little dough at a time into boiling water.
• 12. The little dumplings will rise to the top when done.Drain.
• 13. Add to soup simmer another 5 minutes and serve.

Steps:

• In a large nonstick skillet, saute chicken in oil until no longer pink. Add water and taco seasoning; simmer, uncovered, until chicken is well coated. , Transfer to a 5-qt. slow cooker. Stir in the V8 juice, salsa, beans and corn. Cover and cook on low for 3-4 hours or until heated through. If desired, serve with optional toppings.

Steps:

• In a greased 5-qt. slow cooker, combine all ingredients, except bacon. Cook, covered, on low 7-9 hours., Remove ham hocks. When cool enough to handle, remove meat from bones; discard bones. Cut meat into small cubes; return to slow cooker. Stir in crumbled bacon. If desired, serve with pickled jalapeno peppers and pickled red onions., Freeze option: Freeze cooled beans in freezer containers. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through in a saucepan, stirring occasionally; add a little water or broth if necessary.

Steps:

• Place Great Northern beans into a large container and cover with several inches of cool water; let stand 8 hours to overnight. Drain water and transfer beans to a large stockpot.
• Mix ham hocks, water, celery, onion, carrot, garlic, thyme, black pepper, and bay leaf with beans in the stockpot; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer until ham is coming off the bones, about 2 hours.
• Remove ham hocks from soup. Cut meat from bones, discarding fat and bones. Return meat to the pot. Continue cooking until beans reach desired softness.

Steps:

• Pick over the beans, removing any small stones or beans that just don't look "right".
• Cover the beans with water in a crockpot (this is usually 2-3 cups of water).
• Now put the remaining ingredients in a soup pot or crockpot and simmer for another few hours.
• Mom usually mashes a cup or two of the beans to thicken the soup, but you don't need to do this if you prefer a clear broth.
• Remove the ham hocks and carefully pick apart, removing the tiny bits of meat from the bones.
• Return the meat to the soup.
• Throw out the bones, gristle and skin from the ham hocks.
• If you've put the hocks in cheesecloth, it helps to keep the little bones that can resemble beans from making their way into the soup as the hocks tend to disintegrate during cooking.
• If the soup has cooled considerably, get the heat back up and serve.

Steps:

• Add extra-virgin olive oil to the pot, 2 turns of the pan. Add garlic and crushed red pepper flakes, stir then stir in the onions, carrots, celery and zucchini. Cook 10 minutes, then add in the stock, tomatoes and beans. Bring soup up to a bubble and season with salt and pepper, to your taste. Simmer 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and wilt the basil into the soup. Ladle up the soup and serve with grated cheese and bread.

Steps:

• Wash the beans thouroughly and drain. Add the beans to a large stock pot. Add the garlic, rosemary, parsley and thyme. Add the stock and water, bay leaf, vegeta, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Stir all ingredients. Cover and bring to a boil. Add olive oil and stir well. Lower heat to medium. Keep covered and cook for approx 1 1/2-2 hours. Stir every 15 minutes or so. (You can cream the soup with an immersion blender or in your blender if you desire) Serve immediately with a peice of hearty bread.
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Steps:

• Wash and pick over beans.
• Cover with water and soak overnight (or boil for 10 minutes and let sit for an hour).
• Discard soaking water, rinse beans and put in a large soup pot.
• Add the 8 cups of water and bring to a boil.
• Cover tightly and reduce heat to a low simmer.
• Add carrots.
• In a non-stick pan saute onion in balsamic vinegar until it carmelizes (this takes a while on low heat).
• Add garlic, celery leaves, and bell pepper.
• Continue sauteing, adding more liquid as necessary.
• When the mixture has cooked down somewhat, add it to the beans.
• Add the remaining ingredients except the miso.
• Stir in the miso and simmer from 1 to 2 more hours (depending on when you're ready to eat and if you can resist the aroma).
• Remove bay leaves.

Steps:

• dice your veggies and set aside , drain your northern beans and set aside , in a large pot add your water and your veggies (not your beans tho) stir in your seasoning's and the chicken base. bring to a boil and simmer , just until your veggies are tender crisp. now add your beans and ham bone continue to simmer for 30 minutes with the lid on the pot , stir often. my husband can't get enough of this soup it's one of his favorites , enjoy :-)
• as far as spices go of course feel free to season to taste and depending on your brand of chicken base you may want to just add alil at a time to taste because ham is salty as well. this soup is very forgiving and can be easily adjusted to suit your family's taste :-)