15-Bean Soup With Smoked Pork and Greens
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
8-12
ingredients
- 16 ounces dried beans (such as Hurst's s or just add odds and ends that you have)
- 2 quarts water
- 1 lb smoked pork hock
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 pinch crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3 stalks celery, chopped
- 5 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 lb mixed greens
- sea salt
- fresh ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
directions
- Place bean mixture into a large bowl and cover with water by a couple of inches. Soak 8 hours or overnight. Alternately, put them in a pot and cover with water by a couple of inches. Bring to a rapid boil for 3 minutes. Cover, turn off heat and let sit for one hour. Drain water and rinse.
- Place soaked bean mixture in a large pot or Dutch oven with 1 quart of the water, the pork hocks, thyme sprigs, bay leaves, and crushed red pepper. Bring to a boil, cover partially. Reduce to a simmer and let cook until beans are just tender, 1-1½ hours. If using lentils, they will mostly disintegrate and thicken into the liquid. If soup seems too thick, add some more of the water.
- Add onion, celery, garlic, and paprika to the pot. Stir in, then continue to simmer very gently for another 15 minutes. Stir in greens and continue cooking another 5-10 minutes.
- Turn off the heat. Fish out the hocks with a long pair of tongs or a skimmer. Go ahead and remove the thyme stalks and bay leaves while you’re at it and discard them. Set aside the hocks for a few minutes, until cool enough to handle. Pick the meat from the bones and add the meat back to the pot.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper. Stir in the vinegar. Serve!
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Tweaks
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i decided to use italian hot sausages in place of the meat and i cooked this in a dutch oven with garlic, paprika thyme and bay leaves and 2 tbsp Goya sofrito. When thoroughly cooked chopped flame still fairly high with 1 and a half cup of beans recipe and let it boil hard for 5 mins then turned down to 3 with 2 more cups of water
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