Bean Soup - 6 Red Bean Recipes

Red bean soup is not only very tasty, but also a healthy dish. It will allow both children and adults to replenish their body's supply of vitamins and minerals (half of the periodic table is collected in it). It is very easy to prepare bean soup. Red bean recipe is especially popular among modern housewives.

Soup must be present in the diet of vegetarians, as well as those people who observe religious fasts. After all, beans are a complete source of protein. For soup, you can use not only a dry product, but also a canned one.

Red Bean Bean Soup - A Classic Recipe

The classic recipe always uses dry beans

Canned product for this option is not suitable. Today, dry beans can easily be bought at any supermarket. It takes about 350 grams. In addition, you will need to take: 1 pc. carrots and onions, 120 g of tomato sauce, a couple of potatoes, salt, spices.

1. The first step is to soak the beans in cold water. This must be done in advance. It is better to leave the products overnight, so that in the morning to begin cooking.
2. The beans which have lain in water need to be filled in 2,5 l. water and send to the stove. After boiling the fire should be reduced to a minimum and leave the pan for 2.5 hours.
3. Potatoes and onions are cut into small cubes, carrots - rubbed on a fine grater. After about 2 hours, the potato is added to the pan. The remaining vegetables are pre-fried in sunflower oil with the addition of tomato sauce.
4. It remains to salt the soup, pour the selected seasonings into it and turn off the fire. After this, the dish will be infused for at least 30-40 minutes.

Soup is served at the table with herbs and sour cream. You can supplement it with rye croutons with garlic.

Recipe for Soup with Meat

To make the dish more rich and aromatic, it is worth adding meat to it.

Red bean goes well with both pork and beef.

By the way, pork or beef ribs are great for the soup in question. They can be used instead of the neck or any other selected part of the carcass. Preparing bean soup with meat, in clay pots. Let them be a volume of not more than 500 ml.

In addition to the meat component (600 g), for the soup you will need to take: 250 g of dry beans, 1 l. meat broth, 90 g. tomato paste or ketchup without additives, 1 eggplant, 5 potatoes, 1 pc. onions and carrots, suneli hop, basil, granulated garlic and salt.

1. The meat is cut into large pieces or the ribs are separated from each other.
2. All vegetables are cut in any convenient way. Eggplant and carrots are best crushed in large cubes, and garlic in thin slices.
3. Beans are soaked for 60 minutes in warm water, and then boiled in a small saucepan until half cooked.
4. The meat broth is salted, and in addition, tomato paste and all the seasonings listed are added to it.
5. All ingredients are portioned into pots. Last but not least, they are filled with broth.
6. It remains to put the pots in a preheated oven (up to about 160 degrees). They will be prepared for at least 1.5 hours.

Such an unusual way of cooking soup will make it taste as saturated as possible. Traditional bean soup in Russia was always cooked in the oven. The described option with pots and an oven will allow you to get as close as possible to the original version.

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By the way, a ready-made tomato paste can perfectly replace home-made puree from fresh tomatoes.

Canned Bean Soup with Chicken Broth

Chicken soup can also be supplemented with red beans. True, in this case, you will need to use a canned product (1 can). And, in addition, the following ingredients: 1 pc. chicken breast and chicken, a couple of potatoes, 1 egg, green onion, salt, bay leaf and other spices.

1. Fillet and breast are placed in cold water with a bay leaf and brought to a boil. Only after that the foam is removed from the surface of the liquid, and the future soup is salted. The broth should be cooked for about 30-40 minutes.
2. At this time, the egg is boiled hard and chopped in any way, the beans are squeezed from the liquid, the potatoes are cut into small cubes. It is most convenient to chop greens with kitchen scissors.
3. When the chicken is fully cooked, it will be necessary to separate the bone from the breast, and cut all the flesh into pieces.
4. It remains to add the remaining ingredients to the broth, and cook the soup for another 15-20 minutes. When the potatoes become soft, you can remove the pan from the heat.

Such a soup turns out to be very light and tasty. Even the smallest family members will definitely like it.

Red bean soup with smoked meats in a slow cooker

This version of bean soup can be called "male". Smoked meats make its taste very original and piquant, and, in addition, add a richness to the dish. Nothing will satisfy your hunger and warm you on a rainy autumn day like red bean soup with smoked meat. In addition to pork ribs (250 g), you need to take other ingredients: 250 g of red beans, soaked overnight, 4 potatoes, 1 pc. carrots and onions, a mixture of peppers, bay leaf, salt.

1. First, a diced onion and carrots chopped with a coarse grater are sent to the multicooker bowl. They are cooked in the "Frying" mode in olive or vegetable oil for 7-10 minutes.
2. Smoked ribs go to the vegetables. They do not need to be pre-fried or cooked in any other way.
3. Pre-soaked beans (without liquid), diced potatoes, bay leaves, salt, seasoning and, of course, water are added to the bowl of the device.
4. In the “Soup” mode, the dish will be cooked for 1 hour.

It is best to serve a treat with greasy sour cream mixed with a little garlic.You can add it with croutons from Borodino bread or Armenian pita bread.

With meatballs

This simplest first course is made from canned red beans and appetizing meat balls made from a mixture of pork and ground beef. If you make meatballs in advance and freeze them, you will be able to deal with lunch in just half an hour. For such a soup you need to take: 250 g of minced meat, 1 can of beans, 1 egg, 3 potatoes, 1 pc. carrots and onions, a couple of cloves of garlic, seasoning and salt.

1. The potato is cut into small cubes and sent to cook on medium heat in a three-liter pan.
2. Meatballs are prepared from minced meat mixed with 1 egg, salt and any selected seasonings. It is best to make them miniature so that the meat balls boil faster. Ready-made meatballs are also thrown to the potatoes.
3. Shredded carrots and onions in vegetable oil are prepared.
4. It remains to add the fried vegetables and beans, squeezed from the liquid, to the potatoes with meatballs. If necessary, the soup is salted and left on the stove for another 12-15 minutes.

To the table, the finished dish is served fiery hot with sour cream or mayonnaise. It is also delicious to sprinkle it with chopped herbs.

Quick Recipe for Red Bean Soup

To cook red bean soup as quickly as possible, you need to use a canned product. Only it does not require preliminary prolonged soaking. Canned beans are already very soft. In addition to 1 can of the indicated ingredient, you will need to take: 250 g of smoked sausage, a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste, 3-4 potatoes, 1 pc. carrots and onions, seasonings, salt.

1. Diced potatoes and smoked sausage are sent to a pot of boiling water.
2. From onions and carrots in sunflower oil, frying is prepared. To further speed up the process of making soup, you can buy a ready-made option. Today, many manufacturers offer customers quick vegetable frying, which is simply added to the dish during cooking.
3. Beans, salt and selected spices are added to the rest of the ingredients squeezed from excess fluid.
4. Once the potatoes are soft, the soup can be removed from the heat and serve.

For such a dish, instead of sausage, you can use smoked chicken or any other prepared meat components.