Black Bean Soup With Sweet Potatoes

Submitted by akgrown

"A simple and exotic soup served with a dollop of sour cream and lime wedges."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 45mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 2 teaspoons oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 tablespoons garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon ground coriander
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 2 cups dried black beans, soaked overnight (or 2 1/2-3 cups canned black beans)
• 1 tablespoon cilantro, chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
• 6 cups chicken broth
• 2 sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped
• sour cream
• lime wedge, for serving

directions

1. Heat oil in large dutch oven or stock pot. Sauté onion and garlic in oil until soft.
2. Add balance of ingredients except the sweet potatoes. Simmer until beans are soft, about 1 hour.
3. Add potatoes and continue to simmer until potatoes are tender (do not overcook sweet potatoes, they'll turn to mush) :-)
4. Serve hot with a dollop of sour cream and a lime wedge squeezed over the top.

Reviews

[driggs63]

I made this last night and it was so quick and easy and delicious!! I used 2 cans of Trader Joe's black beans, so it only took about 20 minutes to cook. I let it sit on the stove on warm for about 45 minutes total, and it was fantastic. Will definitely make again!!

 

[*Parsley*]

Nice and filling..... and healthy, too! I made this as written using canned black beans (3 cups). This was super tasty, but I felt it was too liquidy. I think 6 cups of broth was way too much for the recipe. Next time I would decrease the broth and/or maybe puree some of the soup. I garnished with sour cream, cilantro and the lime juice. Yummy! Thanx for sharing!

 

[Good Vibe Goddess]

My whole family liked this soup a lot. I used canned beans, and left out the corainder (beacuse I didn't have any). I did add a can of diced tomatoes.

 

[leblanc.heather]

I was very skeptical about this recipe initially, making it only to use up a small amount of both key ingredients I had laying around. It was actually really good and even better the second day. I agree with the other reviewer in that the lime juice definitely adds a great flavor (although it was good without too!).

 

[jennifer in new jer]

very impressive soup. simple recipe to follow, used all organic ingredients but found i hadno coriander or cumin as i thought i had. i did have some curry and looked up curry on this site and found it had both coriander and cumin in it so added 1/2 tsp of that and hoped for the best. it was outstanding. i used canned beans as well and did not drain them before adding which i think gave the soup a nice consistency. the lime should not be left out as it gives it such a nice finish at the end. thank you so much for sharing this easy and delicious recipe.