Probably many are familiar with a product such as beans. It goes well with many vegetables. Therefore, often boiled beans are added to salads, side dishes, soups, etc. But many refuse to cook dishes with such a component. After all, the process of cooking beans takes a lot of time. If there is no time, then you can use canned beans. This product saves many housewives. So, how to make canned bean and chicken soup?
Classic recipe
Canned beans will always come to the rescue if you need to cook the first dish. To make the soup tasty, prepare the following components:
- chicken - 0.5 kg;
- beans - 400 g;
- potatoes - 3 tubers;
- bow;
- tomato paste - up to 3 tbsp. l .;
- carrot;
- laurel;
- pepper;
- salt.
For cooking soup, you can use almost any part of the chicken carcass. This may be the back, thigh, chest and lower leg. As for beans, in this case, it is worth giving preference to red beans.
So let's get started
In fact, soup with canned red beans and chicken is cooked no longer than ordinary dishes in chicken broth. The whole process can be reduced to the following algorithm:
- Rinse chicken parts and place in a container. Pour about two and a half liters of water here and put the leaves of laurel. Place the container on the stove.
- When the water in the tank begins to boil, reduce the heating temperature. Cook the chicken stock for half an hour. At the same time, the contents of the container should boil slightly.
- Remove the chicken from the broth and leave for a while to let the meat cool. Throw the bay leaf.
- Peel the potatoes, wash them, chop them into cubes, add to the broth.
- Peel the onion, cut into half rings. Sauté the onion in vegetable oil for 3 minutes. It should become transparent.
- Peel the carrots, chop and add to the onions.
- Sauté the vegetables for a few more minutes, and then add the tomato paste and 2 tablespoons of chicken stock. Remember to add some pepper and salt. Mix everything thoroughly and remove from the stove.
- When the potatoes are cooked, add the frying to the soup. To do this, pour half the broth into a container with vegetables, and then pour everything into a pan.
- Open the canned beans, and remove the meat from the bones. Add these ingredients to the soup.
- After 5 minutes, salt and pepper the dish, but do not forget that you added salt to the frying.
- Cook the soup for another 5 minutes. During this time, rinse and chop fresh herbs. Remove the canned bean and chicken soup from the stove, add the greens and leave it under the lid for 15 minutes.
That's all. Your first meal is ready. It remains to bring him to the table. To do this, pour it on plates. Canned bean and chicken soup should be consumed hot. So it is much tastier.
White Bean Option
If you are not a fan of tomato paste or you are not impressed with the reddish color of the first dish, then you can use a recipe for soup made from canned white beans and chicken. What will be required for its preparation? The set of products is almost the same:
- parts of chicken carcass - 700 g;
- canned beans, but white - 350-400 g;
- onions - 110 g;
- carrots - 140 g;
- potatoes - 450 g;
- vegetable oil - 18 g;
- laurel;
- ground chili;
- black pepper;
- non-chlorinated water - 2 l;
- salt.
According to reviews, the canned bean and chicken soup turns out to be original, attractive in appearance and pleasant to the taste. In addition, for its preparation there is no need to soak the beans for several hours.
Start cooking
As in the previous recipe, the cooking process takes a little time, and more precisely, no more than 40 minutes. Well, let's start:
- Wash the chicken thoroughly, place in a bowl, fill with water and place on a stove to cook.
- While the poultry meat is boiled, we will prepare the remaining components. Peel and chop the potatoes. It can be cubes or cubes - it doesn’t matter. The main thing is that it is pleasing to the eye.
- 15 minutes after boiling water, add potatoes, laurel, pepper, ground chili and salt to the broth.
- Peel the onions, chop them the way you like, and send them to be sautéed in vegetable oil. Be careful not to overcook the product. The onion should become golden.
- Peel and chop the carrots. You can use a regular grater for this. When the onions turn golden, add carrots to the pan. Strain vegetables for another 5 minutes.
- When the chicken and potatoes are ready, add canned white beans and then sauteed vegetables to the bowl.
- Mix everything thoroughly and cook for another 5 minutes.
That's all. What do the reviews say about this dish? Home-made canned bean and chicken soup will appeal to many. After all, 100 g of such a dish contains about 60 kcal. Despite this, the soup is hearty.