Spiced Black Bean Soup
photo by mersaydees
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 3 -4 roma tomatoes, diced
- 2 stalks celery, sliced thin
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, undrained
- 2 cups vegetable broth
- 1⁄2 teaspoon oregano
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cumin
- 1⁄2 teaspoon celery salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried cilantro
- 1⁄4 teaspoon thyme
- 1⁄4 teaspoon allspice
- 1⁄8 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 4 tablespoons nonfat sour cream or 4 tablespoons plain fat-free yogurt
- 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped (optional)
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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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!
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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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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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