10/25 Legendary Legume Soup
Photo By: S. Duquet
This weekend at the farmers market we found a vendor that was selling the most bountiful bags of local beans. I spied a soup mix that consisted of every bean known to man in one bag. There were no seasonings with it. The mix came as a blank slate, a bright white canvas to embellish and design our own bean-tastic masterpiece. That is precisely what Sandy did. She soaked the beans overnight then used her crock pot voodoo to create the most delicious soup.
The bag contained 1.5 pounds of dried beans. We used the entire bag in the recipe that follows. You can easily invent your own mixture from the bulk food store. Here is a list of the beans that were in ours.
Photo By: S. Duquet
Black beans, black eyed peas, baby limas, lg limas, green splits, yellow splits, red lentils, lentils, kidney beans, small red beans, navy beans, northern beans, pinto beans, cranberry beans.
You could buy a ton of each and mix all of them in a large pot or clean bucket. Then you could portion them into biggie mason jars and give them as holiday gifts tied with whimsical ribbon and the recipe. That and a crusty loaf of bread would be the perfect gift of good taste. (Friends and family currently reading this post, please act surprised when you receive this as a gift.)
Photo By: S. Duquet
This soup is robust, easy to assemble and a touch more elegant than the everyday bean soup. Enjoy.
Legendary Legume Soup
By: S Boulton
Soaking the beans
1.5 lbs of dried bean mixture. Soak these with plenty of water overnight in the fridge. Use a container large enough for the beans to double in size. (this is also your visual for the amount of water you’ll need. In the morning, drain and rinse them before putting them in the crock pot.
Ingredients
Soaked bean mixture
7 cups of water
2 cups of your fave veg broth (we use Not Chick’n Bouillon Cubes and water)
1 cup of carrots diced small
1 cup of celery diced small
3 tbsp of liquid aminos
3 tbsp of apple cider vinegar
2 tbsp of garlic powder
1 tbsp dried thyme
1 tbsp of black pepper
Make it happen
Place the beans, water and veg broth in the crock pot. Cook for five hours on high then add the remaining ingredients and cook for an additional hour. You may also cook it on low for 10 hours then add the remaining ingredients and cook for an additional two hours. This is a low maintenance high return soup.
For those of you who wonder (as I did) about soaking the lentils and split peas overnight, I learned that these little guys become a thickener in the soup as it cooks. So, soak ’em with the rest of the beans without hesitation.
Have a delicious day.
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