During these cold months my husband and I love to have homemade soup for dinner. At least one night a week we will have soup, salad and french bead. This recipe came about after my husband brought home a 6 lbs jar of dried beans.
You will need:
2 cups dried beans
6 1/2 cups water
1 cups diced onion
1 cups diced carrots
1 cups diced celery
2 large cloves garlic minced
1 can diced tomatoes
3 cups chicken stock
2 ham hock
2 bay leafs
In a large stock pot add dried bean, 4 cups water and 2 bay leafs. Let set over night. The next day pour water off beans and replace with 2 1/2 cups fresh water. Leave bay leafs in with beans. Cook on simmer for 2 1/2 hours. Meanwhile saute onion, garlic,carrots and celery. Once the beans had simmered for 2 1/2 hours add celery, carrots, garlic and onions. Then add chicken stock, diced tomatoes and ham hock and cook for another 30 minutes. Take ham hock out and remove ham meat from bone and add back into beans. Simmer for another 30 minutes. May need to add more chicken stock as the soup cooks down. Because the ham is salty I let the amount of salt to add out, salt to your own taste.
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