This dry beany soup-mix is assembled in just 10 minutes and is a great gift idea for Christmas.
Santa's Soup Mix
- Prep Time 10 min
- Total 10 min
- Servings 6
- Ingredients 10
Ingredients
Santa's Soup Mix
- 2 cups mixed dried beans (1/3 cup each yellow split peas, green split peas, lima beans, pinto beans, kidney beans and great northern beans)
- 1/4 cup dried minced onion
- 2 teaspoons chicken bouillon granules
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Santa's Soup
- 8 cups water
- Santa's Soup Mix
- 2 medium carrots, chopped (1 cup)
- 2 medium stalks celery, chopped (1 cup)
- 2 lb smoked ham shanks
Instructions
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Step1To make Santa's Soup Mix: In 1-pint glass jar, layer dried beans, dried onion, chicken bouillon, cumin and garlic powder. Store tightly covered at room temperature up to 2 months. Give with gift card that includes Santa's Soup recipe.
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Step2To make Santa's Soup: In 4-quart Dutch oven, heat water and Santa's Soup Mix to boiling. Boil 2 minutes; remove from heat. Cover; let stand 1 hour. Stir in carrots and celery. Add ham shanks. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover; simmer about 2 hours or until beans are tender. Skim fat if necessary. Remove ham shanks; remove ham from bone. Trim excess fat from ham. Cut into 1/2-inch pieces. Stir ham into soup; heat until hot.
Nutrition
310
Calories
7g
Total Fat
19g
Protein
43g
Total Carbohydrate
5g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 310
- Calories from Fat
- 60
- Total Fat
- 7g
- 11%
- Saturated Fat
- 2 1/2g
- 12%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 20mg
- 6%
- Sodium
- 570mg
- 24%
- Potassium
- 910mg
- 26%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 43g
- 14%
- Dietary Fiber
- 12g
- 47%
- Sugars
- 5g
- Protein
- 19g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 80%
- 80%
- Vitamin C
- 6%
- 6%
- Calcium
- 10%
- 10%
- Iron
- 25%
- 25%
Exchanges:
3 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 1 1/2 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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