Senate Bean Soup
Bean Soup on Senate Dining Room Menu since 1907.
Episode 4: Senate Bean Soup
Let's get legislative with Senate Bean Soup!
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Senate Bean Soup
(Serves 2-3)
Ingredients
-1 cup navy beans (dried)
-1 ham hock or 1 pound of diced ham or 1 pound of sliced bacon
-3 cups of water
-1 potato, cut to 1/4 inch cubes or a little less than 1/4 of a cup of instant mashed potato flakes
-1/2 an onion, diced
-1 celery rib, chopped
-1 garlic clove, minced
-1 handful of parsley, chopped
-Salt and pepper, to taste
Optionally:
-An extra handful of parsley, chopped
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-1 handful of fresh chive, chopped
==Step 1==
Pick through your beans and toss out disfigured or discolored beans. Soak the beans in water overnight (at least 8 hours). If pressed for time, boil the beans for 5 minutes, then take off the heat and let the beans soak for 1 to 2 hours. Once the beans are soaked, drain and rinse the beans.
==Step 2==
Add beans, 3 cups water, and preferred meat to a large pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to bring the water to a simmer. Simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally.
==Step 3==
If you are using instant mashed potato flakes, you may skip this step.
After 1 hour and 15 minutes, peel and cube your potato, then put the potato in a small pot. Put enough water in a small pot to cover the potato by half an inch. Bring the water to a boil and cook the potato for 15 to 20 minutes, until the potato is soft. Drain the potato and transfer to a bowl or plate. Mash the potato with a fork or other preferred tool.
==Step 4==
While the potato is boiling, cut up your onion, celery, garlic, and parsley.
==Step 5==
At 2 two hours, if you used a ham hock, remove the hock from the water and let it cool. Add in your potato, onion, celery, garlic, and parsley to the pot. Once the ham hock is cool, remove the meat from the bone and cut into small cubes, then return the meat and the bone to the pot.
==Step 6==
Stir thoroughly, bring the soup to a boil again, then return to a simmer. Cook the soup for another hour, stirring often.
==Step 7==
If the consistency is not to your liking, you can adjust it by adding water to make it thinner, or smashing navy beans against the wall of the pot to make it thicker and creamier.
==Step 8==
Garnish with fresh parsley or chive, if desired.
==Step 9==
Serve and enjoy!
NAVY BEAN SOUP- EASY ONE POT MEAL!
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HOW TO MAKE CONGRESSIONAL BEAN SOUP
This is a crockpot recipe, but you can cook in large kettle on stove if you want to by bringing up to a boil, then turn heat to medium low to simmer for several hours till beans are done.
recipe:
8 cups water or more if too thick
1 pound dried small white beans - can also use great northern or navy beans
1 meaty Ham bone or 2 cups diced ham or both ham bone and diced meat
1 cup chopped celery
one bunch of celery leaves if there are any on your celery stalks - chop up
1 large onion diced
2 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 large bay leaf or 2 small ones
1 teaspoon salt (add later after beans almost done or if salty enough from ham skip it)
On a plate put some of the beans, sort through them looking for stones, mud etc. remove anything like that. Put beans in colander. When done sorting, rinse all the beans and drain well.
In a large pan put the beans and add the 8 cups of good quality water. Bring to a boil and boil for 2 minutes. In the meantime set the crockpot on high just so the crock warms up and you don't crack it by adding the hot beans and water. Once crock is warm, add the boiled beans and water to the crockpot.
Add remaining ingredients, stirring well. Turn the Crockpot to LOW and cook for 10 to 12 hours till beans are tender. If you have old crockpot you may need to go 12 to 14 hours.
Remove bay leaves, ham bone (cut off any good meat off ham bone and put into soup) discard leaves and ham bone.
In my video I added peeled but up carrots also but I don't always do so. I wanted to clean out my frig!
Serve with crusty sourdough or french bread and salad!
Alternatively you may sort, rinse beans, and soak them in the water overnight then just put into crockpot without boiling.
Senate Bean Soup Pressure Cooker Recipe ~ Noreen's Kitchen
We had a lot of ham left from a meal a couple of weeks ago so we decided to make some senate bean soup in the pressure cooker. This is super easy and you are going to love it!
We started with cooking some beans in the pressure cooker and then moving on with the soup as demonstrated. You can cook your own beans, use canned beans or even throw everything into the pot at once and slow cook this if you wish.
You don't have to have a pressure cooker to make this soup. It can be made on the stove top or in the crock pot or slow cooker just as easily. However I would not add the potatoes at the beginning or you will end up with mush. Add those just about 20 minutes before you intend to serve and everything should be done to perfection!
I hope you give this soup a try and I hope you love it!
Happy Eating!
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