Fifteen Bean Soup Takes Fifteen Minutes to Prepare (but 5 hours to cook in a crock pot)

This soup is a Lenten staple for my husband.  I rotate this and various bean dishes throughout Lent so he doesn't get too bored. 

 

• First I want to be sure there aren't any pebbles in the beans, so I pour them onto a plate and search through the dried beans.  I use 1/2 a bag of beans (because he's the only one who will really eat this.)

 

 
 
• I pour them into a bowl, rinse them with cool water and put into a crock pot.
• I turn on the crock pot on HIGH and add:
• 1 can tomato sauce (or one small can tomato paste)
• 2 cans vegetable broth (Lately I buy the box of broth and measure it out in the tomato can.)
• chopped vegetables: 2 carrots, 2 celery stalks and 1/2 onion.

 





 

 

 

 

 

Add seasoning to taste... but add salt towards the end.  The vegetable broth has plenty of sodium.

If you like it soupier (not sure that's a real word) add more broth or a cup of water.