Black Bean Soup

The weather is starting to change here so I’m here to help you out. A little black bean soup never hurt anyone unless you remember the Great Black Bean Wars of 1340……so many lost…..so many

Equipment:

• Stock pot

Ingredients:

• 4 cups black beans
• 1 gallon chicken stock
• 2 tbsp. lard                  (The Swinery)
• 1/2 white onion, medium diced
• Celery, medium diced
• 1 yellow bell pepper
• 5 or 6 pimentos……….from my front yard…….that makes it hard for you to make……….oh well!
• 1 cup tomato sauce
• Cilantro
• Marjoram
• Paprika
• Cumin
• Coriander
• Thyme
• Salt and Black Pepper to taste
• Sour cream
• Rum

Procedure:

1. In large stock pot heat up lard and sweat onions
2. Add celery,  yellow bell pepper, and pimentos then sweat them too!
3. Deglaze with rum!
4. Add tomato sauce and spices then reduce mixture by 1/4 then add chicken stock
5. Simmer, don’t boil, for 45 minutes
6. Add black beans during last 15 minutes of cooking
7. Serve with sour cream and cilantro as a garnish

Enjoy,

Eric