To understand how to cook bean soup, you need to understand well how to bring the beans to readiness. It is necessary to clarify whether soaking is necessary or you can do without it. And also does adding salt interfere with cooking. And whether for a long time you need to cook beans. Having understood these issues, we will understand how to cook bean soup with the addition of various ingredients. Rice, vegetables and different types of meat will be a great addition to this kind of first courses.
How to cook bean soup. Bean preparation
First you need to understand what product you have to deal with. Fresh beans easily break apart without soaking. But the old and dry are much harder to make soft and tender. Soups often need a good rich broth. To do this, soak the beans in salt water for a day. In hot weather, time can be reduced to eight hours. After this, drain the water, rinse and fill with a new saline solution, in which you can already boil the beans. Also an interesting cooking method came from Japan - they add a leaf of kombu (kelp, sea kale) there. It helps to make the beans soft, and the broth is saturated without any additional effort.
Rinse it well before cooking. Bean
soup with rice can be prepared from the following ingredients: onion, half a glass of rice, water, salt. Rice can also be pre-boiled. If this is not done, then you need to remember that it absorbs a lot of water. And, on this basis, take a sufficient amount of liquid for the broth. Add clean water to pre-cooked beans, add rice and bring to readiness. Before the end of cooking, add the fried onions, pepper.
Bean soup. Recipe with photo
For this dish of Mexican cuisine you will need black beans, as well as many spices. If you find oregano, cumin, coriander, chili and black pepper, then it has a chance to become perfect. You can cook this bean soup with chicken or other meat. But in the lean version, it is quite self-sufficient.
Sauté two red onions in three tablespoons of olive oil until soft, add oregano, cumin, coriander and three cloves of garlic. The oil should be saturated with the aroma of spices. Then you need to cut the chili and paprika, also put in a pan, fry. Add three hundred grams of not very thick tomato sauce, four hundred grams of prepared (or canned) beans and the same amount of canned tomatoes in your own juice. Boil for ten minutes and pour the juice of one lime. Let it brew under the lid, serve with chopped cilantro, natural yogurt or cream.
Another recipe
Cook a frying of onions, garlic, carrots and one celery stalk. Cook a broth of three liters of water and one medium chicken leg. Remove the prepared meat from the broth, add four hundred grams of frozen broccoli and frying there. Bring to a boil, pour a handful of noodles. Cook until tender, at the end of cooking add pre-boiled white beans.