Bean & Bacon Soup
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
8-10
ingredients
- 1 lb navy beans
- 1⁄2 lb bacon, cooked, drained, sliced
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 celery ribs, sliced
- 2 carrots, chopped
- salt
- pepper
directions
- Soak beans overnight.
- The next day -
- Cook bacon until crisp. Dry with paper towels. Slice into small pieces. Set aside.
- Put 1/2 cup of beans aside. Put the rest of the beans in a pot of fresh water with the onion, carrot, and celery.
- Put the half cup of beans in the blender for 30-60 seconds. Put in pot with the rest of the mixture.
- Bring to a boil.
- Add bacon.
- Cook on medium heat for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until beans are soft.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve.
- **If you want to make the soup a little thicker, you can use a manual potato masher to mash the beans before beginning to cook them (just as you put them into the pot of fresh water for cooking).
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