Winter Bean Soup 冬天的豆子湯

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Bean Base Thick Soup: 8 quart pot recipe
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Vegetarian: please take out meat

Ingredients:

2.5 cups dry beans, including:

1 cup runner beans, ½ cup black beans,

1 cup other dry bean varieties.

¼ cup dry hull-less pumpkin seeds

Day 1: soak above overnight in water, no salt

½ cup brown rice

½ cup buckwheat grouts, can substitute/add whole wheat berries

¼ cup chia seeds, optional

6 oz can of tomato paste, or use your own tomatoes

1 can drained black olives, whole or chopped

olive oil or avocado oil, if meat is too lean

3 medium heads garlic, chopped

1 onion, chopped

2-5 jalapeño peppers, to taste, chopped

About 1 cup chopped fresh herbs: parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, others you like.

Small scoops of avocado and grated cheese

½ to 1 whole chicken, or 1-2 lbs stew beef chunks, or ham bone and pork chunks, or your choice

Day 2, if using chicken, put cut up chicken into steamer with 8 qt stock below steamer and steam until chicken meat falls off bones. Remove meat from bones and return meat only to chicken stock. Skim off excess fat if desired. If using beef chunks, brown in skillet. Ham bone and pork require no additional preparation

Day 2, while chicken is steaming---after beans and pumpkins seeds have soaked overnight, pour off water and rinse in colander, put beans back in a cooking pot and heat to about 150 degrees Fahrenheit, remove from heat and let sit for about 15 minutes—then pour off water and rinse.

Meat and beans are now ready to begin cooking in water or stock, using 8 qt stock pot. Cover and  bring to boil, then slow boil for two hours or until beans are soft. Use time to prepare the remaining ingredients. Add rice, buckwheat and dry grains, slow cook or simmer another hour.

Add tomato paste and black olives. Add olive oil or avocado oil if needed. Allow another hour to simmer.

Add chopped garlic, onion, peppers, and herbs. Simmer for 15 minutes.

Serve hot in bowls with fresh avocado and grated cheese as additional options. 

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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