Monday, August 6, 2012

16 Bean Soup




Description

Beans are an excellent source of soluble fibre, and they also taste great! For an easy, budget friendly soup, just start with the dried beans and add a few other simple ingredients. Let it "brew," and you'll have a wonderful meal.

Serves: 8

Cooking Time: 6 min



Ingredients

1 pound 16-bean mixture

2 quart water

1 large onion, chopped

1 clove garlic, minced

3/4 teaspoon salt

1 16-ounce can diced tomatoes, undrained

1 10-ounce can diced tomatoes and green chillies, undrained

1 pound ham hocks or smoked meat



Instructions



STOVETOP

1. Sort and wash beans and place in pot.

2. Cover with water 2 inches above the beans and soak overnight.

3. Drain beans; add 2 quarts water and the onion and garlic.

4. Cover and bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 1 1/2 hours or until beans are tender.

5. Add ham hocks, salt and tomatoes and simmer 30 minutes.



CROCK-POT

I have done this two ways:

1. I have put everything into the crockpot and cooked it on high all day and the beans cooked and were not hard.

2. I have also just put the beans, water, onion and garlic and cooked that for about 4 hours on low then added the salt, ham, tomatoes and cooked that another few hours.



Notes

In the package of beans there is a nasty "ham flavouring" packet that I just throw out. I use the smoked ham hocks or anything that is cheap and then I throw that meat out because it is usually tasteless by then. I just use it for the flavour.

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