Spiced Black Bean Soup

"A black bean soup like no other! Unique and intensely flavored. Warmed pita's make a nice side to this exciting soup."
 
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Ready In:
50mins
Ingredients:
19
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat oil saucepan over medium-high heat. Add chopped veggies and saute until onion is translucent.
  • Add ginger and garlic and saute for one more minute, until garlic is fragrant.
  • Add black beans, vegetable broth and the rest of the spices. Bring to boil, then simmer for 30-35 minutes.
  • Optional: If desired, use food processor or blender and puree half of mixture (leaving half 'chunky'), then return to pan and heat through.
  • Top each bowl with 1 tablespoon ff sour cream or ff yogurt and a sprinkle of fresh cilantro - even though I love cilantro and sour cream; I happen to enjoy this soup 'as is.'.

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Reviews

  1. I used all the spices, except didn't have any nutmeg. I didn't have vegetable broth so I used a combo of tomato juice and chicken broth. Also added a can of corn and 1/2 cup pasta. Oh, and my family likes meat, so I also cut up a left over bratworst for a little meat. We all liked it.
     
  2. I'm so impressed with this soup! Honestly, once I really started looking at the ingredient list, I was a little worried about the spice combination (cloves and ginger?!?!)....but the flavor was amazing! Wonderfully different and oh-so pleasing to the nose and the pallet. The flavors blended together perfectly and though the spices were certainly not lost in the soup, I did not find them to be at all overpowering as I had worried about. Both my picky BF and my good friend who is a vegetarian enjoyed it immensly. I used a can of organic, fire roasted tomatoes, added a little sliced carrot and substituted Mexican oregano in place of the regular oregano. I also omitted the dried cilantro and doubled the amount of fresh, chopped cilantro at the end and served with a dollop of sour cream. Made for ZWT5 Family Picks. This one's a keeper. Thank you for posting!
     
  3. Wow...the kids enhaled this soup! I used diced tomatoes with jalapenos, mexican oregano, and a bit of adodobo. Added chick peas too...Thanks for posting...will make this again for sure. Made and reviewed for Zaar Chow Hounds...ZWT5.
     
  4. I love a nice flavorful soup and this was awesome! The combination of flavors were surely teasing my taste buds with each bite! I almost forgot to mention that I used Red Kidney beans instead of the black beans, and I added in a little pickled jalapeno juice to give it another dimension of flavor. I will make again definately! Thank you for sharing your recipe with us Brooke! Made for Zaar Stars 1/09 Linda
     
  5. We truly enjoyed this soup. I skipped the puree part, added a dash of mexican hot sauce and included the cloves. Turned ut great. Tagged in zaar star forum.
     
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  1. I love a nice flavorful soup and this was awesome! The combination of flavors were surely teasing my taste buds with each bite! I almost forgot to mention that I used Red Kidney beans instead of the black beans, and I added in a little pickled jalapeno juice to give it another dimension of flavor. I will make again definately! Thank you for sharing your recipe with us Brooke! Made for Zaar Stars 1/09 Linda
     

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