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Black Bean Soup

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 12 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Soup, Vegetarian, Camping, Slow Cooker

Tags: boiled, camping, easy, inexpensive, recipes for soup, recipes using black bean, recipes using red bell pepper, recipes with metric units, slow cooker, southwestern, tex-mex, vegetarian

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ABlack_Bean_Soup)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ABlack%20Bean%20Soup&oldid=4524842

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 6 cups dried black beans
  • 5 bay leaves
  • 1 red bell pepper, diced
  • 1 green bell pepper, diced
  • 1 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 7 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 or 2 jalapeños, finely-chopped (to taste)
  • 1½ large onions, diced
  • 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • ½ cup chopped cilantro
  • 1 cup sour cream for garnish

Directions

  1. Pick over the beans.
  2. Place in large bean pot and add water to cover by at least 2 inches (~5 cm).
  3. Soak overnight, then change water.
  4. Bring beans to a boil. Reduce heat, then simmer until beans start to soften, around ½ hour.
  5. Add bay leaves, bell peppers, chili powder, cumin, garlic, jalapeños, onions, and red wine vinegar.
  6. Add salt and pepper to taste.
  7. Simmer ½ to 1 hour, until beans are soft.
  8. Take out bay leaves.
  9. Stir in cilantro.
  10. Add some sour cream.
  11. Serve.