Southwestern Pinto Bean Soup (Pc)
photo by melodysmind
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 1 cup vegetable broth (good when made with broth from potato peels, onion skins and garlic!)
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 2 large onions, chopped
- 1 large red bell pepper, seeded and diced
- 1 1⁄2 cups dried pinto beans, rinsed, sorted, and soaked overnight
- 2 teaspoons oregano (mexican oregano, if you can find it)
- 2 teaspoons cumin
- 2 chipotle chiles (if dried, stem and mince. If canned, smash and add a bit of the adobo sauce)
- 4 cups water
- 2 cups corn kernels
- 3 ounces tomato paste
- 1 lime, juice of
- salt and pepper
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To Garnish
- diced tomato
- diced avocado
- minced cilantro
- chopped green onion
directions
- Place 1 cup of vegetable broth in 4 quart (or larger pressure cooker). Bring to a full simmer.
- Add garlic to broth, simmer 1 minute.
- Add chopped onions and diced red bell pepper to garlic broth mix. Simmer 2 minutes.
- Drain and rinse pinto beans from overnight soak. Add to the mixture in the pressure cooker.
- Add oregano, cumin, chipotle peppers, corn and water to the pressure cooker.
- Bring to a full boil. Seal cooker with lid and bring to high pressure.
- Cook beans at high pressure for 10 minutes. Allow pressure to come down naturally (or you may use speed release if your pressure cooker supports this).
- Put tomato paste in blender. Add 1 cup of the bean mixture to the blender and puree.
- Return the pureed mixture to the cooker and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Garnish with diced tomatoes, cilantro and avocado and green onions.
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Reviews
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Tastes great, but I'd not call it "light", as it's very hearty and filling. Be sure to serve it with a wedge of lime, the acidity adds a bright, fresh note that bean soups really need. Also, when pressure cooking beans a small amount of oil is recommended to prevent the beans from foaming up and clogging the valves. I used a ham hock in mine, and I agree that a little Mexican chorizo would be a great addition, as it contains vinegar and would also provide a little "chew" to the texture. My skeptical husband really enjoyed this soup.
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I made this and loved it, my meat-loving partner thought it would be better if I added chorizo sausages, so I did. I now make it both ways. We cannot get chipoltes readily here so I just use long red (fresno)chillies or jalapenos and it tastes great. It also freeze and microwaves well. I serve it with a dollop of sour cream and some shredded cheese and onions.
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I'm an ovo-lacto vegetarian of 15 years, feeding a family of omnivores. We are recent empty-nesters, so I'm learning to cook more elegantly for Mr. Omni and myself now that I'm not feeding hordes of teenagers.