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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