Tomato and Bean Soup

kolibri's Note:

This is one of those make loads and eat for days recipes - easy and tasty. If you absolutely must, you can use canned tomatoes - but only if you can't get fresh tomatoes. I got the original recipe from Australian Women's Weekly Low Fat Meals in Minutes book.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 5 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 large yellow onion
• garlic clove , crushed (to taste, personally I put in a whole bulb)
• 1 kg tomato , ripe, chopped coarsely
• 500 ml chicken stock
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 dash Tabasco sauce (or to taste)
• 2 tablespoons fresh parsley
• 800 g beans , canned, different varieties

Directions:

1. Fry onion and garlic in a pan, until onion is soft.
2. Stir in the chopped tomatoes, stir more until tomatoes are soft.
3. Add stock and the sauces, bring to boil and let simmer covered for 30 minutes. If you like your tomato soup smooth, you can blend the soup after this point. I like mine chunky.
4. Stir in parsley and the beans. Simmer uncovered for five minutes or so, until the beans are hot.

Reviews

[analog kid]

Very chunky soup! Really nice flavour combination- I used a lot of tabasco and it worked really well with the beans and tomatoes. I used a can of black beans and a can of mixed (garbanzo, kidney, black eyed, romano), also canned stewed tomatoes and half a bulb of garlic. Very good, everyone enjoyed it.

[Simonacular]

This was fantastic, i had some home grown tomatoes to use up and i couldn't have picked a beter way to use them, will mke a great winter warmer, thanks for posting.

[Chef #354477]

If you like garlic and you like beans, this one is for you. I used 2 cans of tomatoes, 4 cloves of garlic and wow was it garlicky! I'm sure using fresh tomatoes would add to the flavour, but its absolutely fine with canned. I used some pinto beans I had in the freezer, butter beans and kidney beans. Will definitely make this again.