Momma's Bean Soup

Hello! How have things been for you all? I hope bearable. Maybe more than that, hopeful. Here is the recipie I have promised. It is so good ya'll! I grew up eating ham and beans, so this brings the nostalgia in a big way.

Momma's Bean Soup

Ingredients:

2 cups chopped red onions

2 cups shredded carrots

1 1/2 cups celery

1 1/2 TBS crushed/ minced garlic 

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp onion powder

1 tsp smoked paprika

1 1/2 tsp coconut sugar

2 tsp liquid smoke

a few dashes of hot sauce

1 tsp salt (plus more to taste after done cooking)

1/4 tsp pepper

2 TBS Soy Sauce

4 cups veg/mushroom broth

2 cups water

5 cans white beans with juices

1/2 cube non-chicken seasoning 

olive oil for saute

Instructions:

Prep all veg.

Heat oil in the bottom of a deep pot. (aprox 2 TBS)

When hot, saute over med heat, onion, celery, and carrot for 6min stirring often.

Add in seasonings. salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder, and smoked paprika. 

Saute with spices another 5 min. stirring often. 

Make a small clearing and add a tsp of oil and cook the fresh garlic till tinder and aromatic then mix in.

Add coconut sugar, soy sauce, hot sauce, and liquid smoke. 

Saute another 3 min. 

Add broth, water and beans with juices. 

Stir and cover, bring to med-high till boiling. Stir every 10 min till boiling. 

Once at a boil off-set a lid covered by a towel and lower heat to simmer.

Simmer for 2 hours, stirring every 20 min. 

This amount feeds my family of 6 two times. (plenty of left overs for us to eat it for another meal)

I usually make some simple garlic cheese drop biscuits, or sometimes a skillet corn bread. 

Enjoy and rememeber it is so worth the effort!! The times of sauteing, and the flavor building is for real!

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