Israeli Bean Soup
photo by CulinaryQueen
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 2 cups small white beans (navy beans, etc)
- 6 cups cold water, for soaking the beans
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 onions, chopped
- 3 celery ribs, chopped
- 3 -4 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 carrots, chopped
- 6 1⁄2 cups water
- 2 potatoes, peeled and cut into small chunks
- 1 -2 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 28 ounces crushed tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- salt and pepper
- 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 cup fresh cilantro, minced
directions
- Soak beans overnight. Drain and rinse well.
- Heat oil in a large heavy bottomed soup pot and saute onion and celery for five minutes until golden.
- Add carrots and garlic and saute for another five minutes. Add water, beans, potatoes, bay leaves, thyme and cumin.
- Bring to a boil, and then reduce to simmer for 1 hour.
- Add tomatoes, tomato paste, salt and pepper.
- Cook 1/2 hour longer, until beans are tender.
- Add cilantro.
- If soup is too thick thin with a little bit of water.
- Time given does not include overnight soaking.
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Good Soup!! Easy to put together, I cheated and used tinned beans and reduced the first cooking time to 20 mins, just to cook the potoatoes. Followed the rest of the recipe exactly and had excellent results. I was keen to see how it would turn out as thyme and cumin are two flavours I have never used together, but it was wonderfully different. I kept some of this to one side and blended the rest (DH takes it to work in a flask) it gave it a very homely comforting feel to it...very filling is what DH said! Thank you studentchef!
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I am an Israeli-Canadian who grew up in Montreal Quebec. I love to cook, especially for family and friends, and I love to experiment with recipes and try to do different variations of the same recipe. I did do part of cooking school, but found the place stressful and all the good recipes high in fat and calories, even the good ones. I don't have a fave cookbook, but I eat kosher. I have a dream and that is to own my own B&B one of these days. I also love creative writing, and maybe I like to try make up a recipe of my own and see if I'm good at doing that.
I have to add that I do have some favourite chefs from the Food Network. They are Giada De Laurentis from Everyday Italian; Micheal Smith from Chef at Home; Jamie Oliver and everything he does; Anna Olson from Sugar; and Chef Gordon Ramsey from Hells' Kitchen and Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.
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