Cath's Wholesome Vegetable and Bean Soup Recipe

This bean soup recipe is my all time favourite at the moment because it is such a wonderfully healthy and complete meal which is crammed full of delicious healthy vegetables.

Eaten with a slice of whole wheat or rye bread, this meal is packed with vitamins and minerals and provides all the protein and carbohydrates you need - and if you’re using olive oil, it provides a good fat too. Bean soup is of course a great source of dietary fiber too which keeps our intestines healthy and helps reduce blood cholesterol levels.

Vegetable and Bean Soup

Ingredients

• 500g dried sugar beans or dried beans of your choice.
• 2 or 3 onions, chopped.
• 200g back bacon trimmed of excess fat.
• 1 or 2 potatoes, diced or coarsely grated.
• 5 large carrots, sliced of coarsely grated.
• 6 celery sticks and tops, sliced.
• 1½ litres vegetable or beef stock – I use a combination of the two.
• 500ml (2c) water.
• 60ml (1/3c) pearl barley.
• Dash of soy sauce.
• Dash of Worchester sauce.

Directions

1. Soak the beans in water overnight or pour boiling water over the beans and let them soak for a few hours.
2. Fry the onions in a bit of olive oil. Add a little bit of water to allow it to steam fry with the lid on.
3. Add the bacon and cook.
4. Add the soaked beans, pearl barley, stock and water.
5. Simmer on low heat for about 2 hours.
6. Add the veggies, soy & Worchester sauce and simmer for another hour of so until everything is soft.
7. If you like you can mash it a bit to break everything up. This will also help the soup to thicken nicely.

Serve up and enjoy!

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