Bean Soup 魔豆湯

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Bean Soup is good for winter time. You can use any kind of bean you like. Leave it on wood stove (and/or rice cooker/crockery cooker) and slowly cook until soft.












Ingredients:




 





1. Beans:








 
such as black beans, red beans, lentils, scarlet emperor, white bean, speckeled beans, split peas, black eye peas, kidney beans and so on.








2. A quart jar of home made tomato juice OR an 8 oz can of tomato paste
(Boil the tomato, peel the skin, add some garlics and herbs)



 



3. Rice (brown or white rice) (option)
4. One cup of shredded Monterey Jack Cheese (option)
5. 1 TSP smashed garlic (option)








6. 1/4 sliced fresh onion and mustard




















7. Fresh herb: Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, and so on




















8. Jalapeno pepper (option) and black olives
 
9. About 1 TSP salt (to your taste)

Process:
1. Soak beans over night (the water must cover beans, leave the lid open)







 
2. Pour out the water and wash beans several times until the water is clean
3. Put water and beans into the cooker. Water has to be at least twice amount of beans.
4. Cook until beans are soft.







 


5. Add black olive, tomato juice or paste into the soup




 







6. You can serve bean soup now if you like plain soup or add some sugar in it as a dessert.Keep cooking if you like richer flavor:

7. Add a cup of rice into the soup (or cook rice first, then add cooked rice into the soup).

8. Add all herbs into the soup









9. Add garlic and/or jalapeno pepper if you like spicy flavor.








10. Serve a bowl of soup with shreded Monterey Jack cheese, chopped onions or a half avocado with a piece of cranberry/millet/walnut/green bean bread.
 












 













You can stop here if you want a vegetarian meal








 
Bean soup with meat:
11. Mix salt, smashed garlic, chopped jalapeno pepper with ground meat, mix well.
12. Fry ground meat thoroughly with butter.
13. Add cooked meat into the soup
14. Cook the soup till boiling







 


15. Serve a bowl of soup with shredded cheese, chopped onions or a half avocado with a piece of cranberry bread.










Most of the ingredients are from our garden.

 

因魔豆湯得花長時間慢墩，每年冬天，就利用燒木柴的老火爐，慢火燉上好幾天，以備在外工作進屋後，有碗熱騰騰，又營養飽肚的湯可喝，亦可用大同電鍋或燉鍋煮它，味道一樣鮮美。

這湯的所有豆子都是自家種的，什麼豆子都行，重點在必須浸泡一夜，至少八小時以上，第二天倒掉泡豆子的水，用清水把豆子洗幾遍，再放到電鍋或燉鍋裡，煮到爛熟，水量約為豆子的兩倍。

豆子煮軟後，加入黑橄欖，蕃茄汁或新鮮番茄，繼續燉爛　(若用新鮮番茄，則在滾水把蕃茄煮爛後，挑出皮, 加入許多大蒜和多種香草, 例如羅勒草調味)。

加入米(白米、糙米、小米都行) ，可事先用電鍋把飯煮熟，再加入豆湯裡比較快。

加點鹽和香草 (若無新鮮或乾的西洋香草，中國類香草亦可) ，大蒜和辣椒這些調味料，可依個人喜好增減。

吃素的以下步驟可省:
另一大碗醃絞肉: 大蒜、辣椒、香草和鹽，醃牛/豬/羊肉選其一，若用雞肉，可用去骨雞絲肉，或把雞骨頭從湯裡挑出來。
熱油鍋把絞肉炒熟，再加到豆湯裡，大火煮滾即可。

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