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Bowl of black bean soup
Photo: Geoff Peters from Vancouver, BC, Canada, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (cropped)

Soups · Recipe No. 110

Black Bean Soup

Black Bean Soup made with black beans, carrot, onion and celery. The recipe serves 8; change the portions and units below and the amounts update.

  • Serves 8

Method

  1. Heat some oil in a large pan, add the chopped carrot.

  2. Add the chopped celery and onion.

  3. Fry until they are lightly browned. Add the water, beans, ham hocks, garlic.

  4. Bring to the boil and simmer covered until the ham and the beans are tender for 2hrs.

  5. Remove the ham and take it off the bone, dice it and set aside.

  6. Place soup through a liquidiser or blender until blended.

  7. Add the diced ham to it, season with cayenne, lemon juice, mustard and reboil.

  8. To serve garnish with peeled lemon slice and a slice of egg with a twirl of cream.

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Converted from the Cookeryonline Excel workbook “Black Bean Soup”.