Showing posts with label greens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greens. Show all posts

Monday, January 20, 2014

Black Bean Soup with Kale and Mushrooms

As if Black Bean soup isn't already good enough, I added Kale and Mushrooms to push it over the top!!


I started with a Black Bean soup recipe from allrecipes.com (link), and changed it up a bit.  What I ended up with is below, and it's been a huge hit with our friends and families so far!  It's a hearty soup that covers 5 of the 7 GBOMBS (Greens, Beans, Onions, Mushrooms, Berries, and Seeds) that we are suppose to be eating every day.

Serves: 6
Prep time: 15 min
Cook Time: 45 min

Ingredients:
2 medium onions
2 stalks celery, chopped
3 carrots, chopped
2 cups mushrooms, sliced
4 cloves garlic, chopped
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon ground cumin
black pepper to taste
4 cups low sodium vegetable broth
8 cups (or 4 15 oz cans) black beans
2 cups sweet corn (frozen is fine)
1 15 oz can crushed tomatoes
1 bunch Kale, chopped
a dash or two of hot sauce (optional)

Instructions:
In a large pot over medium-high heat add onion, celery, carrots, mushrooms and garlic and cook for 10 minutes or so, until the onions and mushrooms are cooked. 

Add chili powder, cumin, and black pepper.  Stir, and cook for 3 minute or so before adding the vegetable broth, 4 cups of beans, and corn. Bring everything to a boil.

While that's cooking combine the remaining 4 cups of beans and the crushed tomatoes in a blender, and blend until smooth. Stir the blended beans and tomatoes into the boiling soup mixture, reduce heat to medium.  

Add the chopped kale, and simmer for 20 minutes stirring occasionally.

If you want to spice it up, which I almost always do, add a little hot sauce when serving!  Delish!!


Onions, Celery, Carrots, Mushrooms, and Garlic in the pot!

All stirred up and cooking nicely, just before adding the spices.

Fast forward, and it's finished and ready to eat!!


Sunday, October 25, 2009

Stewed Greens

Sometimes I have such a backlog of greens from the farm I just put a whole bunch in a pot with a can of diced tomatoes, some corn for sweetness and a little Italian seasoning. It comes out so good! Even Ev commented on how good it smelled while I was cooking it tonight. Let's see if he actually eats some for dinner tommorrow. This batch has kale, spinach and collard greens.




Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Carrots with the greens still on

For some reason my kids love steamed carrots if the green part is still left on. For some reason it is a total novelty for them. We got these carrots from our CSA farm and they were so tasty.

The other shot of the rest of the dinner, a hodge podge of other veggies and tacos.