Choose to make your dinner on stovetop or slow cooker with this hearty soup made using pork and beans.
Senate Bean Soup
- Prep Time 20 min
- Total 4 hr 35 min
- Servings 8
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
- 2 cups dried navy beans (1 lb), sorted and rinsed
- 12 cups water
- 1 ham bone, 2 lb ham shanks or 2 lb smoked pork hocks
- 2 1/2 cups mashed potatoes
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 large onion, chopped (1 cup)
- 2 medium stalks celery, chopped (1 cup)
- 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
Instructions
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Step1In 4-quart Dutch oven, heat beans and water to boiling. Boil uncovered 2 minutes; remove from heat. Cover and let stand 1 hour.
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Step2Add ham bone. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer about 2 hours or until beans are tender.
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Step3Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover and simmer 1 hour.
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Step4Remove ham bone; let stand until cool enough to handle. Remove ham from bone. Remove excess fat from ham; cut ham into 1/2-inch pieces. Stir ham into soup.
Nutrition
330
Calories
10g
Total Fat
16g
Protein
45g
Total Carbohydrate
5g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 330
- Calories from Fat
- 90
- Total Fat
- 10g
- 15%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 15%
- Trans Fat
- 1g
- Cholesterol
- 15mg
- 6%
- Sodium
- 960mg
- 40%
- Potassium
- 730mg
- 21%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 45g
- 15%
- Dietary Fiber
- 9g
- 37%
- Sugars
- 5g
- Protein
- 16g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 6%
- 6%
- Calcium
- 10%
- 10%
- Iron
- 20%
- 20%
Exchanges:
3 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 1 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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