Winter Navy Bean Soup Recipes

NAVY BEAN SOUP WITH HAM

Steps:

• Place navy beans into a large pot and cover with cold water by 2 inches. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove pot from heat, cover, and let stand for 1 hour. Drain beans.
• Use a small piece of kitchen twine to tie parsley and thyme sprigs and bay leaf into a small bundle. Place soaked beans, herb bundle, ham hocks, carrot, onion, and garlic into a large soup pot or Dutch oven. Pour 8 cups cold water over ingredients. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer until beans and ham hocks are tender, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Turn off heat; remove ham hocks and let cool. When they are cool enough to handle, remove meat from the bones, discarding the bones, fat, and skin. Chop ham into small cubes. Remove and discard herb bundle.
• Transfer about 3 cups cooked beans along with some cooking liquid into a blender; puree beans. Pour pureed beans back into soup, add cooked ham, and bring back to a simmer over medium heat. Season with kosher salt and black pepper to taste.

NAVY BEAN SOUP I

Steps:

• Combine beans, water, tomatoes, onion, celery, garlic, ham, bouillon, Worcestershire sauce, parsley, garlic, and bay leaf in a stock pot; bring to a boil. Lower heat, cover, and simmer for two hours.
• Add additional water. Season with salt and pepper. Simmer for an additional two hours. Discard bay leaf.

WINTER NAVY BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Place navy beans in large saucepan, add enough water to cover beans.
• Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer 2 minutes.
• Remove from heat, cover and let stand for 1 hour (Or, cover beans with water and soak overnight).
• Drain beans and return to saucepan.
• Stir in 2 1/2 cups water, salt pork, onion, oregano, salt, ginger, sage and pepper.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat.
• Cover and simmer 2 to 2 1/2 hours or until beans are tender.
• (If necessary, add more water during cooking).
• Add milk and butter, stirring until mixture is heated through and butter is melted.
• Season with additinal salt and pepper.
• I have made this soup with a leftover ham bone with a little meat left on it instead of the salt pork or chopped ham.
• Place the ham bone in the pot before bringing to a boil and remove after the 2 1/2 hours of simmering, scrape and chop any meat left on the bone into the soup.
• Discard bone.

WINTER NAVY BEAN & HAM SOUP

Steps:

• Soak beans according to package directions.
• Add Bouillon cubes to 6 cups water.
• Add Chopped Ham.
• Lightly saute onion, celery, garlic in oil, add to stock.
• Add carrots, beans simmer on low 1 1/2 - 2 hours.
• salt and pepper to taste.
• I live right at sea level here in Alaska, so for some reason beans cook faster here, forgot to add that in until after a couple of reviews.

BEST EVER NAVY BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Pick over and wash beans. Soak overnight in water in large cooking kettle. In morning, add onions, garlic, celery and ham bone. Put kettle on medium heat, bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer 3-4 hours More water may be needed but should be quite thick. Taste soup and season: salt needed will depend on ham bone's contribution.

MY NAVY BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Clean and sort the beans. Place them in a large bowl with water to cover and soak for 3 hours.
• In a large pot over medium heat, combine the beans and the chicken stock and allow to simmer.
• Meanwhile, melt the butter or margarine in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the carrots and onion and saute for 10 minutes, or until onion is caramelized. Add this mixture to the pot.
• In the same skillet over medium high heat, saute the bacon for 10 to 15 minutes, or until it is crisp. Drain the grease and add the bacon to the pot. Continue to simmer the soup over medium heat, stirring frequently, until the beans are tender and the soup has thickened.

HOMEMADE NAVY BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Cook pork hocks or ham bone and the onion for one hour in enough water to cover the bones.
• Add beans, salt, pepper and sugar and more water to keep all ingredients covered.
• Cook 1 hour or till beans are soft.
• Add carrots and celery, cook for 30 minutes.
• Add potatoes and cook 30 more minutes.
• Season with more salt and pepper if desired.

MOM'S SIMPLE NAVY BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Pick over the beans, removing any small stones or beans that just don't look "right".
• Cover the beans with water in a crockpot (this is usually 2-3 cups of water).
• Now put the remaining ingredients in a soup pot or crockpot and simmer for another few hours.
• Mom usually mashes a cup or two of the beans to thicken the soup, but you don't need to do this if you prefer a clear broth.
• Remove the ham hocks and carefully pick apart, removing the tiny bits of meat from the bones.
• Return the meat to the soup.
• Throw out the bones, gristle and skin from the ham hocks.
• If you've put the hocks in cheesecloth, it helps to keep the little bones that can resemble beans from making their way into the soup as the hocks tend to disintegrate during cooking.
• If the soup has cooled considerably, get the heat back up and serve.