Holy Bean Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large soup pot over medium heat. Put the carrots, celery, onion and garlic in a food processor and process until smooth but still chunky.
• Transfer to the pot and cook, stirring for 5 minutes. Add half the curry, stir and cook until the vegetables are nearly soft, about 5 more minutes.
• Add the beans and gallon cold water. Bring to a boil and simmer for 3 hours, adding more water to keep the beans covered by 1 inch. Season with salt and pepper to taste and add the remaining curry powder to taste. Serve with crusty bread.

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:

• Boil the drained, soaked beans with the water, bone, bay leaf and chili in a large pot.
• Reduce to a simmer and simmer for 3 hours.
• Add the remaining ingredients and simmer for 1 hour longer.
• This was a requested recipe and in my comments I said that if you dont have all the ingredients for the herb mix dont worry about it.
• Shake in what you got.
• If you go out and buy everything required in the spices-you're looking at around 50 bucks!