The next recipe to cross off my list is 15 bean soup. I don’t know if' I’ve ever had it before, but it sounds like loads of fun. This one looks like it’s going to be pretty easy, but it showcases another of those simple tasks (like cooking a whole chicken) that I’ve never done before. I have never cooked dried beans.
After I bought my 15 bean soup starter kit, containing a variety of beans and a seasoning packet, I figured I should make sure I’d gotten my money’s worth, so I sorted through and made sure I had actually received 15 distinct bean varieties. Here’s what I came up with:
Interestingly enough, the ingredient list on the package said the bag contained 15 of 17 listed varieties, so it was up to me to figure out which ones I’d actually gotten. It got a little dicey when it came to some eerily similar white beans, but as far as I can tell, my soup will contain the following beans: northern, garbanzo, green split pea, large lima, cranberry bean, baby lima, kidney, pinto, small white, pink bean, small red, yellow split pea, lentil, navy, black bean. All that, plus some polish sausage should be quite the treat. I put the beans on to soak a few minutes ago, so everything will be ready to go tomorrow. I’ll let you know how it turns out.
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