Basque Red Bean Soup Recipes
BASQUE RED BEAN SOUP
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Put small red beans and three times that volume water in stockpot. Add diced onions, finely diced leeks, salad oil, diced chorizon, and ham hocks. Boil lightly 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Add tomato puree and beef bouillon cubes. Salt to taste. In a separate pan, sauté diced onion and diced garlic in oil until lightly browned. Add paprika. Add mixture to beans. Let simmer 30 minutes. For thicker beans, a mixture of flour and cold water, mixed slowly at first to avoid lumps, can be combined, then slowly added to the beans to desired consistency. Remember, the liquid will continue to thicken as it cooks. Serve with hot sourdough bread.
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RED BEANS OF TOLOSA STEW
_Alubias de Tolosa_ _**Editor's Note:** This recipe, introductory text, and author's tips are excerpted from Marina Chang's book_ Tastes of the Pyrenees, Classic and Modern_. We've also added some tips of our own below._ _ For a complete guide to Basque cuisine, [click here](http://eat.epicurious.com/eat/going_global/?/eat/going_global/basque/intro. html)._ Beans have long been an important diet component from Asturias (_fabada asturiana_) to Toulouse (_cassoulet_). They are easily stored and in centuries past could enable a rural family to eat well during winter. Tolosa is a Basque town in Guipúzcoa, Spain, near the French border and San Sebastián. Known for manufacturing the familiar Basque berets, on Saturdays it also hosts a colorful farmers' market in the village square where visitors can sample local produce. Red beans of Tolosa are often referred to as black beans, and their cultivation is concentrated primarily in Guipúzcoa. The Basque consider this bean variety to be the best tasting that can be had. Tolosa has long been famous for its stews made of these local red beans. Periodically, the area's chefs have contests to vie for the recognition of preparing the best. As with many widely made classic dishes, the recipe for _alubias de Tolosa_ will vary with each Basque cook; however, this version is fairly representative. The town of Gernika also lays claim to having outstanding beans for this recipe. This dish is often served with pickled guindillas, a pencil-thin, regional, spicy green pepper.
Provided by Marina Chang
Yield Makes 4 to 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Place beans in a large bowl or pot and fill with water at least 2 inches past the top of beans. Soak overnight. Drain and rinse. Place in a pot, adding enough water to cover beans. Boil until a foam rises to the top. Remove from heat, and pour off foamy top liquid.
- Heat olive oil in a large pot or casserole dish over medium-high heat. Quickly brown the surface of the ribs. Add salt pork or bacon, and onion, stirring quickly for 3 minutes. Add garlic, and sauté until garlic begins to turn a straw color. Pour in beans and add enough water to cover all. Cover and simmer on low heat for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally, until beans are cooked through and centers are no longer tough.
- Add chorizo and continue to cook for 30 minutes. At this time, cook the morcilla separately in a pan with just enough water for them to simmer, and cook, covered, for 30 minutes.
- When the beans are done, season with salt and pepper, if needed. Just prior to serving, remove and cut into sections, pork ribs, salt pork/ bacon, and chorizo sausages, if whole. Also cut morcilla sausage into sections.
- Serve the beans, including a piece of pork rib, chorizo, and some morcilla in each serving.
BASIC BASQUE BEANS
This recipe comes out of one my Basque cook books called The Basque Table, great book. I have cooked these beans for very large dinners (up to 70 people) always a winner. I have made a few changes. If you are preparing beans as a side dish, soup bones or morrow bones will suffice for flavor, I use ham hocks if I have them if not soup bones will work. But for a main course, you may want to add meat to the pot. Bacon or chorizo or even hamburger will work. If using hamburger, sauté first. *Research in recent years by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture shows that a simple procedure in preparation will eliminate 80% of the gas caused in eating beans. Complex sugars are that element and can be dissolved out in the soaking water by following this method. 1. Add the washed beans to a large pot with at least 3 times as much boiling water. 2. Boil 2 minutes without a lid 3. Remove from fire, cover and let stand 1 hour. 4. Discard water and add fresh cold water to cook.
Provided by littlebasque
Categories Beans
Time 2h
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Wash and pick over beans to discard any stone or other debris. After preliminary preparation, add fresh cold water (hot water toughens them) to about 2 inches above beans.
- Add soup bones or ham hocks. Bring to a boil and skim off the foam that forms. After beans have simmered covered for about 45 minutes, and are beginning to soften, add the rest of the ingredients. (If onion or salt is added in the beginning, the beans may toughen).
- Continue cooking for about 45 minutes, or until beans are very tender. Adjust seasoning to taste.
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