Mom's Navy Bean Soup

Submitted by Izzy Knight

"By request. Mother's proud recipe."

 

• Ready In: 4hrs 10mins
• Ingredients: 20
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• 2 cups navy beans
• 8 cups water
• 4 carrots, sliced
• 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• 2 onions, chopped
• 5 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 cup celery leaves, chopped fine (and tender inner stalks)
• 1 bell pepper, chopped
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1⁄2 teaspoon mustard powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon chili powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1⁄2 teaspoon thyme
• 1 tablespoon parsley flakes
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 dash Tabasco sauce
• 2 tablespoons barley
• 1 teaspoon miso

directions

1. Wash and pick over beans.
2. Cover with water and soak overnight (or boil for 10 minutes and let sit for an hour).
3. Discard soaking water, rinse beans and put in a large soup pot.
4. Add the 8 cups of water and bring to a boil.
5. Cover tightly and reduce heat to a low simmer.
6. Add carrots.
7. In a non-stick pan saute onion in balsamic vinegar until it carmelizes (this takes a while on low heat).
8. Add garlic, celery leaves, and bell pepper.
9. Continue sauteing, adding more liquid as necessary.
10. When the mixture has cooked down somewhat, add it to the beans.
11. Add the remaining ingredients except the miso.
12. Stir in the miso and simmer from 1 to 2 more hours (depending on when you're ready to eat and if you can resist the aroma).
13. Remove bay leaves.

Reviews

[QTE1959]

Utterly amazing tasty beans. I could live off this stuff! Thank you Izzy and Mom. I used chipotle chili in clace of the chili powder and tabasco and this harmonized well. The recipe provides a really nice combination of spices that is worth trying out...definately NOT just one more oregano-thyme-carrot-celery-onion bean thing.

 

[BlessedOne]

This is an interesting way to prepare navy beans. I did not use miso or Tobasco, as I had none.the taste was good, but I think I may play with the amounts of spices and vinegar next time to have a little more flavor.

 

[jellie]

This tastes similar to other soups I've tried. Not bad, but not outstanding. A good basic recipe. Next time I'll probably up the vinegar and the spices.