New Years Day Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a soup pot over medium heat; cook and stir garlic until it begins to brown, about 3 minutes. Add onion and carrots. Cook and stir until carrots begin to brown and onion becomes translucent, 7 to 8 minutes. Cook and stir collard greens into onion mixture until wilted, about 5 minutes.
• Pour vegetable broth and black-eyed peas into vegetables, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer soup until vegetables are softened, 20 to 25 minutes.
• While soup is simmering, mix quinoa and water in a saucepan, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer until the water has absorbed into the quinoa, about 10 minutes. Stir cooked quinoa into soup and simmer until collard greens are tender, about 10 more minutes. Stir cider vinegar into soup to taste and season with salt and black pepper.

Steps:

• In a large saucepan with enough water to cover, soak the black-eyed peas 8 hours, or overnight.
• Drain and rinse the soaked black-eyed peas, and return to the saucepan. Mix in the beef broth, dry onion soup mix, sausage, rice, and green chilies. Season with pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer 1 hour and 30 minutes, or until the beans are tender. Add water as necessary to keep the ingredients covered with liquid.

Steps:

• Sort and rinse peas then place into a slow cooker and cover with 8 to 10 cups of cool water. Let soak, 8 hours to overnight.
• Drain water from peas and add broth, ham, carrots, celery, ham bone, onion, Worcestershire, salt, and pepper.
• Cover and cook on High for 5 hours. Stir in collard greens and cook until tender, about 30 minutes more.

Steps:

• Cook the chicken until no longer pink in the olive oil in a heavy stock pot.
• Add ham, celery, onion, garlic, bell pepper, and carrots. sauté over medium heat until the vegetables are tender.
• Stir in the black eye peas, corn, chicken broth, stewed tomatoes, diced tomatoes, and tomato sauce. Bring to boil, cover and reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
• Stir in 1 1/2 cups of spinach, the zucchini, and the parsley. Add the pepper and simmer for 20 minutes more or until the zucchini is tender.
• Garnish with more chopped fresh spinach, if desired.

Steps:

• Wash and pick over the dried beans. Cover with 2 inches of water and allow the beans to soak overnight.
• In a stock pot, combine 2 quarts water, ham, beef, bay leaves and salt. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Rinse the soaked beans and add them to the pot. Cook, uncovered, until tender, about 1 hour. Add the potatoes and collards and boil for 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a sauté pan over medium heat, warm the olive oil. Add onion and bell pepper and sauté until the onion is translucent, about 8 minutes. Add the vegetables to the soup pot. Reduce the heat to a simmer, cover and cook for 1 hour. Salt to taste.
• Optionally top each serving with a garnish of a spoonful of salsa or chow-chow.

Steps:

• In a large stock pot or Dutch oven, brown sausage along with onion and garlic. When the sausage browned add all of the other ingredients and mix well. Bring up to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer and cook for 45 minutes to an hour.
• If you want to do this in your slow cooker. Brown the sausage with the onion and garlic first in a skillet. When browned place the meat with the other ingredients in a 5 - 6 quart slow cooker and cook on low 6-8 hours or on high for 3-4 hours.
• Serve with your favorite cornbread. Letting this soup sit a day or 2 will meld the flavors even more.