No Soak Black Bean Soup

This is a good recipe to cook all day on a weekend or on a work day, if you have time, all you have to do is throw all the ingredients into a crock pot.

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Ingredients:

• 1 Tablespoon olive oil
• 1 yellow onion
• 1 green bell pepper
• 7 cloves of garlic
• 1 pound dry black beans
• 5 cups water
• 3 cup vegetable broth
• 7 oz can diced green chiles
• 1 Tablespoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon thyme
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 2 bay leaves
• Garnish:
• 1/3 cup low-fat sour cream or non-dairy, soy sour cream
• 1/2 red bell pepper, diced
• 1/2 white onion, diced
• 3 Tablespoons fresh cilantro, finely chopped

Method

This recipe allows you to start cooking right away, and chop the vegetables as you go. Add olive oil to the crock pot and turn on highest setting. Chop yellow onion and stir into the olive oil. Cover and let cook while you chop the green bell pepper into 1 inch chunks. Stir in green bell pepper. Using a garlic press, crush garlic cloves directly into the crock pot. Stir and cover. Rinse black beans in a colander. Add to crock pot along with water, broth, chiles, cumin, thyme, salt, pepper, and bay leaves. Cover and cook on high for at least 8 hours. Before serving, partially puree soup with a hand mixer or submersible hand held blender. Mix until thick, but still with chunks of beans, onions and peppers visible. Ladle into 6 soup bowls. Top off each bowl of soup with a dollop of sour cream (about 1 tablespoon), 1 teaspoon diced red bell pepper, 1 teaspoon diced white onion, and a sprinkling of finely chopped, fresh cilantro (about half a tablespoon).

Notes: This recipe is particularly easy, because you can use dried beans without soaking them!

Number of servings: 6

Submitted By: kk1000
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