Welcome to the ultimate guide to cooking a delicious and hearty great northern bean soup! Whether you're a seasoned cook or just starting out, this article will provide you with everything you need to know to create a flavorful and satisfying soup that will warm you up on a cold day or make a great addition to your next potluck. From selecting the right ingredients to mastering the cooking techniques, we'll cover it all. So, gather your ingredients, prepare your kitchen, and let's embark on a culinary journey to create the perfect great northern bean soup.
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GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP
Great hearty vegetarian or vegan meal.
Provided by Crystal
Categories Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes Soup Recipes Vegetable Soup Recipes
Time 1h
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Heat olive oil in a stockpot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and garlic in hot oil until the onion is tender, about 5 minutes.
- Stir carrots and celery into the onion mixture. Pour vegetable broth into the stockpot; add potato, bay leaves, basil, sea salt, pepper, and thyme. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook at a simmer until the vegetables are beginning to soften, about 20 minutes.
- Stir beans into the soup; continue simmering until the beans are hot and tender, about 20 minutes more.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 414.3 calories, Carbohydrate 75.1 g, Fat 5 g, Fiber 15.8 g, Protein 19.8 g, SaturatedFat 0.8 g, Sodium 949.7 mg, Sugar 7.2 g
HAM AND GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP
Basic ham and bean soup. Very easy to make.
Provided by Christy
Categories Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes Soup Recipes Pork Soup Recipes Ham Soup
Time 50m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Cut ham off bone in bite-size pieces, reserving bone. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a skillet over medium heat and fry ham pieces in hot butter until lightly browned, about 4 minutes.
- Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large saucepan; cook and stir onion, carrots, and garlic in the hot butter until softened and onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Pour undrained beans into vegetables, add ham and reserved ham bone, and pour in water to make soup your desired thickness. Stir bay leaves into soup and season with salt and black pepper.
- Bring soup to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for 25 minutes. Remove ham bone and bay leaves before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 237.5 calories, Carbohydrate 21.7 g, Cholesterol 31.3 mg, Fat 11.2 g, Fiber 5 g, Protein 13.2 g, SaturatedFat 5 g, Sodium 919.6 mg, Sugar 2.6 g
HAM AND GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP FOR THE CROCK POT
Title says it all. Put this it together using a little bit from this recipe and a little bit from that recipe but mostly suggestions from my Mom. Tip I learned from someone else on Zaar was to add the salt at the very end of the cooking time, otherwise the beans get tough. You could also add 3/4 cup celery if you like celery in your soup, or saute the carrots and onion before putting them in the Crock Pot if you like the flavor from that, too.
Provided by Cats Pajamas
Categories Ham
Time 8h20m
Yield 8 cups, 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Place the soaked and rinsed beans in a 5- or 6-quart crock pot. Look them over one more time for any bad beans or foreign matter.
- Add chopped carrots and onion.
- Pour chicken broth (pan drippings/chicken broth combination if you're using it) over beans, carrots, and onion. Mix gently.
- Add ham and stir again.
- Throw in ground thyme, basil, and ground black pepper. (Measurements in ingredients section are a guesstimate, I hardly ever use measuring spoons when cooking, I just make a cup in my hand and eyeball it.) To my tastebuds, a little thyme goes a long way so you may wish to add more than 1/2 teaspoon. Stir again.
- Add bay leaf and push it gently under the surface of the broth so it doesn't float.
- Cook on high for 1 hour, then low for 8 hours, stirring once in a while if you can. You could probably just cook on low for 8-9 hours if there's nobody home to change the setting. I just like to get things heated up and moving so I do high for an hour on just about everything I put in a Crock Pot.
- Remove the bay leaf.
- Add salt just before serving to the whole pot or individual bowls.
- This may taste good with a drop of Dijon mustard in individual bowls or even a tablespoon or two of cream.
- If it's too thin, just take the lid off for a while.
GREAT NORTHERN BEAN N HAM SOUP / CROCK POT
Love the creaminess of Northern beans...love this soup as well...this is how I used up the ham bone from Easter...Enjoy!
Provided by Cassie *
Categories Bean Soups
Time 6h15m
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- 1. Place your beans in a large bowl; cover with water and soak overnight. After soaking, pick through and discard any stones or shriveled beans. Rinse thoroughly and place in an 8 quart crock pot. Add all remaining ingredients except for the chopped ham, unless you aren't using a bone. I just use the bone and its meat for cooking, then add other cubed ham at the end.
- 2. Once all ingredients are added; stir as best as you can - mainly to mix in the bouillon. Place on the lid. Turn pot on low and cook for 6 - 8 hours or on high for 4 - 5 1/2 hours; or until the bean are creamy. All pots cook differently. I started mine on low for the first 4 hours, then turned to high for another 3 1/2 hours...was perfect..
QUICK GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP W/ KIELBASA
Make and share this Quick Great Northern Bean Soup W/ Kielbasa recipe from Food.com.
Provided by College Gal
Categories Pork
Time 30m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Cut sausage into bite sized peices. Put onion and sausage in large sauce pan over medium heat. Cook until heated through, about 5 minutes.
- Add all other ingredients, bring to a boil.
- Turn heat to low and simmer 20 minutes.
- Remove bayleaf.
LISA'S DRIED GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP
This is a family favorite we have all the time. We eat it with crackers but you could also serve with cornbread. It's a wonderful dish on a cold day , but we like it anytime.
Provided by linguinelisa
Categories Beans
Time 3h10m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Look over the beans and remove any rocks or broken beans. Rinse the beans and put in a large pot. Add water, about 8 cups or enough to cover by at least an inch. Bring to a boil on stove. Add onions, garlic, bay leaf and ham hock. Return to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 2 to 3 hours, stirring occasionally. Makw sure you don't run out of water and that the beans don't scorch. Add more water if necessary.
- After beans have softened (about 2 hours), add salt and pepper to taste.
- Continue cooking until beans are done. Make sure the soup is not too thick or too thin. (I usually get it too thick but you can always add water to thin it out.). Remove bay leaf and serve.
GREAT NORTHERN BEAN & OLIVE SOUP
Make and share this Great Northern Bean & Olive Soup recipe from Food.com.
Provided by TGM1613
Categories Beans
Time 35m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Saute the onions and garlic in olive oil over medium heat until onions are translucent.
- Add carrot to mixture and simmer for 4 minutes.
- Add the remaining ingredients.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes until vegetables are cooked.
- Serve with italian or sourdough bread slices.
GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP
This recipe came about from the left over Ham Bone that I had on Thanksgiving. Hated to let it go to waste. So with the cooler weather, I made this soup and some Brown Soda Bread, then made a Cranberry Apple Crisp from the fresh cranberries that I had left over also. Dinner was so filling, and my husband could not stop eating the...
Provided by Rose Mary Mogan
Categories Bean Soups
Time 3h55m
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- 1. In a very large pot, add ham bone, chicken broth and enough water to cover bone, and start on a low simmer. Pick through beans for dirt and pebbles, wash and add to pot after about 1/2 hour to 45 minutes or so of the ham bone cooking.
- 2. In the mean time chop all of the veggies to be added to pot, then add to pot, as well as add bay leaves. Continue to cook over low heat, stir occassionally to prevent beans from sticking. I put these on early so they could cook slowly for hours over low heat. You can presoak if you do not have a lot of time.
- 3. After a few hours, the meat on the ham bone will fall off & distribute into the beans, continue to cook, until mixture is thick and rich looking, TASTE AND ADD SALT AND PEPPER IF NEEDED. Cook until beans are very tender & liquid has thickened and carrots tend to float to the top of the soup. Remove bay leaves before serving.
- 4. Serve with your favorite bread or crackers, I made Brown Soda Bread, but Honey Corn Bread mini Loaves would be great, or Mama's Butter Milk Corn Bread, or Hot Water Corn Bread, any of which would compliment this soup very well. All of these recipes are mine and are listed here at Just A Pinch.
- 5. Please Note, you may need to add additional liquid to soup as it continues to cook. Stir often to prevent beans from sticking to pot.
DISNEY'S GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP
Make and share this Disney's Great Northern Bean Soup recipe from Food.com.
Provided by NovaLee
Categories Beans
Time 1h
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Soak beans over night.
- Drain and rinse.
- In soup pot add beans water and bouillon bring to boil reduce heat and simmer.
- Cook 1 hour until tender but firm on the inside.
- Add celery,onion,carrots, cook 30 minutes until tender.
- Add ham,tomato and spices cook 10 minutes.
- Add cornstarch and water mix.
- simmer 5-10 minutes until thickened.
- Cool 10-15 minutes.
- mix well and serve.
GREAT NORTHERN BEANS, BEEF VEGIE BEAN SOUP
I had left over Round Steak and wanted to try to make a soup! It turned out amazing!
Provided by Paulette Miller
Categories Bean Soups
Time 4h30m
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- 1. Sort, rinse, soak your beans first.
- 2. Place water on a boil, add beans tomatoes and fresh vegetables. Do not drain the tomatoes. Just pour the whole can in.. It adds flavor.
- 3. After soup has boiled for approx 2hr.. Add the meat. Continue to cook on medium boil for 1 more hour. Stir occasionally to prevent any sticking or burning.
- 4. Now, you can Add your beef bouillon cubes, Worcestershire sauce and the Grill Mates seasoning. You can add any other spices you choose. Some, Tabasco sauce will spice this up nicely. Let the soup simmer on medium boil for another hour.
- 5. When your beans are at your preferred tenderness, serve it up!
- 6. You can also add shredded cheese as a topping garnish.. I prefer, shredded Colby Jack. Garlic bread is also great with this!
Tips:
- Soak the beans overnight: Soaking the beans overnight helps to soften them and reduce the cooking time. It also helps to remove some of the indigestible carbohydrates, which can cause gas and bloating.
- Use a variety of beans: Great Northern beans are a mild-flavored bean that works well in soups. However, you can also use other types of beans, such as kidney beans, pinto beans, or black beans.
- Add vegetables and herbs: Vegetables and herbs add flavor and nutrition to the soup. Some good choices include carrots, celery, onion, garlic, thyme, and bay leaves.
- Use a good quality broth: The broth is the base of the soup, so it's important to use a good quality broth. You can use chicken broth, beef broth, or vegetable broth.
- Season to taste: Once the soup is finished cooking, taste it and season it with salt and pepper to taste.
Conclusion:
Great Northern bean soup is a hearty, delicious, and nutritious soup that is perfect for a cold winter day. It's also a great way to use up leftover beans. With a few simple ingredients and a little time, you can make a delicious pot of Great Northern bean soup that your family and friends will love.
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