Crock Pot Kielbasa and Bean Soup

Dib's's Note:

Here's a great crock pot recipe for keilbasa lovers. Serve with hot bread and a salad.

• Total Time: 7 hrs 5 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 7 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 4 (14 ½ ounce) cans low-fat chicken broth
• 6 ounces dry pinto beans , picked through
• 6 ounces dried split peas , picked through
• 16 ounces kielbasa , split in half and sliced
• 4 carrots , sliced
• 3 stalks celery , sliced
• 1 large onion , chopped
• 2 cloves garlic , minced
• 1 ½ teaspoons thyme
• 1 (14 ½ ounce) can diced tomatoes

Directions:

1. Place all the ingredients except the tomatoes in a crockpot.
2. Cook on low for 7 hours.
3. Add the diced tomatoes with juice and cook on high for 30 minutes.
4. Added note-as one reviewer found out, if you add the tomatoes to the crockpot at the begining of the recipe, your beans will remain hard and uncooked.

Reviews

[Stephie Biggs]

I give it only a 4 b/c of how overpowering the Thyme was to me, but my husband could not stop talking about how much he loved this recipe. (My beans turned out fine.)

[ellie_]

Although this soup is very filling and great tasting I soaked the beans overnight just to be on the safe side and the beans were still a bit undercooked but this could be because I live at high altitude and always need to make adjustments for that. Next time I think I will pre-cook the beans just a bit before putting them in the crockpot to commensate for the high altitude. Thanks for sharing!

[TheDancingCook]

Delicious! I made this during a huge snowstorm; and there is nothing better than the aroma of cooking soup filling up your house on a cold, snowy day. And sitting down and eating this hot, hearty soup was even better. The best part was how easy it was to make; no precooking of meat, no soaking of beans. Thanks for posting; it's a definite keeper, snow or no snow.