Realsimplebeanandbaconsoup Recipes

REAL SIMPLE BEAN AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven or saucepan, fry the bacon until crisp.
• Remove and drain on paper towels.
• Let cool, chop and set aside.
• Over medium heat, add the carrot to the pan drippings in the Dutch oven and sauté for 5 minutes.
• Add the celery, onion, and garlic, stirring well and cooking for 3 minutes more.
• Add the beans and 2 cups of water.
• Bring to a boil, cover, and reduce heat to low.
• Let simmer for 10 minutes.
• Uncover and, with a potato masher or large slotted spoon, partially mash the bean mixture until it thickens slightly.
• Stir in the parsley, salt, pepper and bacon.
• Serve hot.

BEAN AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Preparation Check the beans for stones.
• Pour boiling water over beans and let stand 1 hour or soak overnight and drain.
• Finely chop the bacon ends and pieces, or fat saved from a smoked ham, and cook it on a medium fire in a big pot to render the fat.
• Be sure the crumbs of fat are nicely browned, like crisp bacon.
• Add the cut up veggies (you can change the amounts to suit yourself, and add others too, ad lib) and saute in the fat.
• Add a few cloves of mashed garlic if you like it.
• Drain the beans and rinse them.
• Add the water or stock, beans and ham hock and herbs and spices.
• Bring to the boil, simmer for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, maybe even more depending on beans, until they are very tender.
• Cut the fat and skin from the ham hock and dice it and return to the soup.
• I often cook a couple of extra ones and have beans and hocks as a meal.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• You can skim the fat, but in the cold winter, it tastes good.
• The colder it is, the better you will like fatty soups.
• If you cook it long enough, the beans and everything will break down and puree, combining with the fat to make a"creamy" consistency, that is much admired by"beanies.
• "I like to finish the soup with sliced kielbasa.

BEAN AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Add the oil to a dutch oven and once heated up add the onion, celery, garlic, and back bacon. Cook and stir until the celery starts to get soft.
• Add the water, vegetable bouillion, carrot, potato and bay leaves and bring to a boil.
• Turn heat down to low but keep the soup at a very gentle boil for about 20 minutes or until the carrot and potato are soft.
• Add both cans of beans and simmer for another 15 minutes.

BEAN AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a large saucepan over medium-high heat until crisp.
• Remove from pan, reserving 2 teaspoons dripping in pan.
• Add onions, chili powder, and mustard to drippings in pan, saute 3 minutes.
• Stir in bacon, water, and remaining ingredients, and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes.
• Partially mash the beans with a potato masher.
• Enjoy.

BEAN AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Cook bacon in soup pot till browned but still limp.
• Remove bacon from pan and reserve two tablespoons bacon fat.
• Cook carrots,onions, and celery in bacon fat over medium heat till soft.
• add beans and broth to soup pot with bacon and veggies.
• Bring to boil and turn heat down to simmer for 1/1/2 hours.
• Season with celery salt and pepper and serve with crusty bread and butter.

QUICK BEAN AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan cook onion and bacon on medium heat until onion is clear and bacon lightly browned (If needed add oil to brown bacon).
• Add bean and bacon soup to bacon/onion mixture.
• Then pour half of the can of mixed beans into a bowl and mash.
• Add the rest of the canned and mashed beans into saucepan with other ingredients (if the mixture seemed to thick add the water) .
• Stir until well mixed, and turn heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes or until heated through.