Beans are loaded with nutrition and make an hearty, creamy low-fat soup. Beans are a best kept secret when it comes to anti-oxidant load as well.
Serves 6
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Beans are loaded with nutrition and make an hearty, creamy low-fat soup. Beans are a best kept secret when it comes to anti-oxidant load as well.
Serves 6
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I just made this and it was delicious and really easy. I had actually never cooked beans from scratch before. One problem though — the skins of my beans were tough and chewy, even as the insides were cooked. Any recommendations?
Otherwise it was great! Thanks!
Super, glad you liked the recipe. Sometimes salt can toughen the skins of beans- you can can cooking them first for an hour or so in water, draining and then adding in the chicken broth that already contains salt.
On a separate, glad that you are adding beans to your diet or learning to cook them from scratch! I’m sure you’ve heard all the talk about getting extra fiber, right? Just 1 cup has 12 grams- awesome when you consider that they recommend 30-38 grams of fiber a day for men.
We are having this recipe tonight. I am excited to try it. I soak my own beans quite a lot, mostly because it is so much cheaper and lower in salt when you do. I have never used baking soda when soaking them. Why do you say to? Does it help in some way? Thanks!
Hi Nicole,
Soaking beans in plain water definitely helps them to be less “gassy” down the road of you know what I mean, and I have heard that the baking soda aids in that process although there no scientific proof. You may leave it out of course, but while they soak check out this amazing article by my favorite food chemist.
Hey, try this. I use kombu when I soak beans. It’s a seaweed and I guess it absorbs the gasous offenders. It’s sold in health food stores. Some brands of canned beans, like Garden of Eden (Eatin’?) already have it in there. It comes in sheets…It’s a wonderfully nutritious additive to soups, etc. I crumble the kombu up, then add to recipes. It’s also available in powder form, but I haven’t tried that yet.
Thanks for the great recipes!!
Great idea! And kombu is really good for you too! Oh the brand is “Eden” I’ve used their products before, they’re great.
http://www.edenfoods.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=108880
I cook my beans overnight in my slow cooker on low. They come out perfect everytime! Thanks for the great recipe Jennifer!
Thanks Jennifer- great tip 🙂
I ended up soaking my beans for a day and a half. Anybody know if they are still edible?
They should be, did you soak them in the fridge or counter top. If you soaked them on the counter top, just watch out for molding.
The recipe calls for canned black beans, but all the comments sound as though the writers used dry beans. Also, the recipe ingredients add up to about 7 cups, but it also says it makes 8cups of soup. . .