Sue Doeden's Country Style Three Bean Soup
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Original is 8 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (518.7 g)
- Calories 357.2
- Total Fat - 15.7 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.7 g
- Cholesterol - 111.8 mg
- Sodium - 2025.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 25.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 10.9 g
- Sugars - 5.3 g
- Protein - 30.5 g
- Calcium - 134.9 mg
- Iron - 4.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 15.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Rinse and sort beans, removing any small stones, shriveled beans and dirt.
Step 2
In a large soup pot, heat beans and 8 cups of water to boiling.
Step 3
Boil 2 minutes.
Step 4
Remove pot from heat.
Step 5
Cover and let stand for 1 hour.
Step 6
Drain beans in colander and rinse with cold water.
Step 7
Return soup pot to heat.
Step 8
Melt butter over medium heat.
Step 9
Add onions and carrots and saute for about 5 minutes, until onions are tender.
Step 10
Add pork hocks and 8 cups of water to the pot.
Step 11
Add bay leaves and peppercorns. (put the bay leaves and peppercorns in a tea ball before adding to the pot.) This makes removal very easy.
Step 12
Heat to boiling.
Step 13
Return rinsed and drained beans to soup pot.
Step 14
Simmer soup for 45 minutes.
Step 15
Remove about 2 cups of soup and place in a shallow bowl.
Step 16
Mash the soup with a potato masher.
Step 17
You could also put the 2 cups of soup in the blender and puree.
Step 18
Return mashed soup to pot.
Step 19
This gives the soup a thicker texture.
Step 20
Add sliced sausage.
Step 21
Cook 20 minutes more.
Step 22
At this point, soup can be covered and refrigerated overnight.
Step 23
At serving time, heat soup until piping hot.
Step 24
Remove bay leaves, peppercorns and pork hocks. Cool the hocks slightly.
Step 25
Trim the meat from the hocks and add to soup.
Step 26
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Tips
No special items needed.
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