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16 Bean Soup

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16 Bean Soup

Beans are an excellent source of soluble fiber, 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 quarts 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 chiles, 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.

 

SLOW COOKER

I have done this two ways:

  1. I have put everything into the slow cooker 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 flavoring" 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 flavor.

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