Lima Bean Soup
Hearty and delicious soup that you can feel good about eating. Great for meal preparation ahead of time. Stores great and gets better with time. You will need very few ingredients plus some spices.
Ingredients
- 1 package dry baby lima beans 460 g
- 1 package smoked turkey sausage 14 oz/392 g
- 12 slices bacon 90 g
- 30 oz San Marzano style peeled canned tomatoes like Nina 840 g
- 18 oz onion - one large onion 500 g
- 5 cloves garlic
- 4 quarters water (add as much as you need as you cook for desired consistency) or chicken stock
- 3 bay leaves
- 5 allspice berries-
- 2 tbs or more marjoram
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Soak beans overnight
- Drain water
- Add beans to a big pot and add water (or chicken stock)
- Add salt, pepper and spices and spring it to boil, cover
- In the meantime, chop sausage and bacon
- Add bacon to a heated pan and render the fat
- Add sausage and fry in bacon fat
- Chop onion and add to bacon and sausage and sauté until soft
- Add tomatoes, season with salt and pepper and cook for 10 minutes
- Add marjoram
- When the beans are almost done (soft) add the tomato and sausage stew
- Cook for 30 minutes to an hour until beans are completely soft and soup thickens
