Name: Winter Navy Bean Soup
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 3 h 30 min
Total time: 3 h 45 min
Yield: 6 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups dried navy beans or 1 1/4 cups lima beans, rinsed and drained; 4 ounces salt pork or 4 ounces fully cooked ham, , chopped; 1/4 cup chopped onion; 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano leaves; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger; 1/4 teaspoon dried sage; 1/4 teaspoon black pepper; 2 cups nonfat milk; 2 tablespoons butter

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Winter Navy Bean Soup created by Ronald Stirling

A good hearty soup, especially good with the old ham bone.

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ingredients

1 ¹⁄₄ cups dried navy beans or 1 1/4 cups lima beans, rinsed and drained
4 ounces salt pork or 4 ounces fully cooked ham, , chopped
¹⁄₄ cup chopped onion
¹⁄₂ teaspoon dried oregano leaves
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt
¹⁄₄ teaspoon ground ginger
¹⁄₄ teaspoon dried sage
¹⁄₄ teaspoon black pepper
2 cups nonfat milk
2 tablespoons butter

directions

Place navy beans in large saucepan, add enough water to cover beans.
Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer 2 minutes.
Remove from heat, cover and let stand for 1 hour (Or, cover beans with water and soak overnight).
Drain beans and return to saucepan.
Stir in 2 1/2 cups water, salt pork, onion, oregano, salt, ginger, sage and pepper.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat.
Cover and simmer 2 to 2 1/2 hours or until beans are tender.
(If necessary, add more water during cooking).
Add milk and butter, stirring until mixture is heated through and butter is melted.
Season with additinal salt and pepper.
I have made this soup with a leftover ham bone with a little meat left on it instead of the salt pork or chopped ham.
Place the ham bone in the pot before bringing to a boil and remove after the 2 1/2 hours of simmering, scrape and chop any meat left on the bone into the soup.
Discard bone.

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review by chef313633

8/26/2016

Wonderfull. Thanks.

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review by dgrover4

7/18/2015

First time I made this recipe so I tried to follow ingredients precisely except I added two stalks of chopped crlery and cubed 1" slabs of smoked ham for meat and added a small can of sliced mushrooms. Added no water during cooking. Before adding the milk and butter I pulled about 1/4 of the beans out and puréed them in a blender to make the soup thicker. It was looking pretty good until I added the milk. Then it became way too thin and watery for my taste. Next time I'll take a tip from Sassafras and use chicken broth instead of water and leave out the milk.

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tweak by dgrover4

7/18/2015

First time I made this recipe so I tried to follow ingredients precisely except I added two stalks of chopped crlery and cubed 1" slabs of smoked ham for meat and added a small can of sliced mushrooms. Added no water during cooking. Before adding the milk and butter I pulled about 1/4 of the beans out and puréed them in a blender to make the soup thicker. It was looking pretty good until I added the milk. Then it became way too thin and watery for my taste. Next time I'll take a tip from Sassafras and use chicken broth instead of water and leave out the milk.

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review by edodge

12/26/2010

My husband loved this! We enjoyed it with a mix of dried beans, but had to cook it for while longer than stated in order to get the beans soft enough.

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review by Lauren K

5/3/2010

I just now realized that I forgot the last steps of this recipe when I came on to write a review. I did everything except adding the butter and milk, and it is STILL delicious! I don't know that I'll even add it next time as it is so tasty the way I did it. I increased the amounts of each ingredient a bit, and smashed some of the beans to give it a different texture. GREAT RECIPE!!! Thanks Derf! :-)

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