Bean soup - useful and nutritious meal at any time of the year

Contents:

• Nourishing soup with lamb
• Soup in Bulgarian with tomatoes
• Chorba a peasant
• Soup with mushrooms and vegetables
• Vegetable soup with cauliflower
• Soup with tomatoes

Dishes with beans and people know eaten since ancient times. This is largely due to the high nutritional value of this crop.

Lentil, pea or bean soup fills quickly, eliminates hunger, gives strength to the body and provides a variety of useful trace elements, which are almost not found in other foods.

Furthermore, such recipes of dishes not complicated, and in most cases they contain only the simple and available ingredients. This is not surprising: cooking bean soup began when a major supplier of products had their own vegetable garden. What it grew, and it was going to eat.

Today we know a great number of recipes beans. They came from different cuisines of the world, but the basis of all is the usual bean soup. It can be a lean meat, mushrooms, meats and vegetables. If you wish, you can cook the soup or the national dish such as chorba and shurpa. The main thing - do not forget about the main ingredient, fresh or canned beans!
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Nourishing soup with lamb

If you want to please her lover, came home from work, tasty and nutritious dish, try to cook soup with red beans and lamb. In addition to the recipe 250 g of dry beans contains the following ingredients:

• fresh mutton with bone - 500-600 g;
• celery - 0 5 root;
• carrots and onions - 1-2 pcs .;
• Tomatoes - 3 pcs .;
• yellow bell pepper, a half;
• smoked bacon - 50 g;
• garlic, a few cloves to taste;
• olive oil for frying;
• white pepper, bay leaf and oregano.

Soak the beans in a small amount of boiling water for 12 hours, then add 2, 5 liters of water and cook until soft. At this time, chop the onion and celery in small cubes and carrots and pepper - thin strips. Add to the vegetables chopped bacon and garlic, passed through the masher. The mixture is lightly fry in olive oil. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes, remove the peel and bring them to the blender puree the state.

Then all the prepared ingredients and mutton dip into the broth. Usually cooking a bean soup takes about 50-60 minutes. For 20 minutes until cooked meals add the spices, salt to taste and 0, 5 tsp. Sugar, give the dish a distinctive flavor. Before serving, according to the recipe, the soup must be insisted at least 30 minutes.

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Soup in Bulgarian with tomatoes

You can also cook for the family soup with beans in Bulgarian. The recipe for this dish is very simple. For this dish, but 1 cup of bean seeds, pre-soaked in a small amount of water required:

• 500 grams of beef or lamb;
• 5 pcs. potatoes;
• onion;
• 2 pcs. tomatoes;
• pepper, bay leaf.

Boil the broth, then remove the meat and cut into small pieces. With the beans, drain the water and put it in the broth. Boil about 0, 5 hours. Chop onions and tomatoes with a knife, fry in vegetable oil. Add the broth roasted vegetables and chopped medium-sized diced potatoes. Season the soup with salt, pepper and bay leaf. When the dish is ready, put it in the ground meat, bring to a boil and turn off. A simple and delicious soup is ready.
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Chorba a peasant

Fans of national cuisines will be interesting recipe dishes such as Beef chorba a peasant. This soup of green beans, which in addition to the main ingredient (50 g) includes:

• the flesh of beef - 400 g;
• carrots - 1 pc .;
• parsnips and onions - 100 g;
• Potatoes - 400 g;
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc .;
• cabbage - 120 g;
• Tomatoes - 5 pcs .;
• Tomato paste - 10 g;
• canned green peas - 50 g;
• kvass - 800 g;
• parsley, dill, lovage - to taste.

Despite the large number of components, cooking bean soup is quite simple. The meat cut into middle-sized pieces and put to boil. After boiling the broth, you must add salt and chopped onion. The rest of the vegetables cut and fry in oil. Potatoes cut into cubes. All vegetables are added to the broth at a time when the meat is almost ready. Boil bean soup is still required 20 minutes then boil brew, and add to the broth, put the peas, boiled green beans, tomatoes and tomato paste. Bring to boil, sprinkle with herbs and serve.

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Soup with mushrooms and vegetables

Calorie bean soup - the best dish for Lent, when the body in the absence of meat and protein foods requires something more substantial than vegetables. A good option to diversify your Lenten table can be a recipe for soup with mushrooms. To cook it you need:

• 150 g frozen honey agaric;
• 150 g pre-soaked beans;
• onion;
• 2 pcs. large potatoes;
• 20 g celery root;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• herbs to taste.

Pour beans 3 liters of water and cook until soft. Then chop the onion and carrot, fry in a little vegetable oil. Slice the potatoes and place it in the pan. Add the roasted vegetables, chopped celery, mushrooms thawed. Boil bean soup for about 15-20 minutes. Before serving, sprinkle with herbs.
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Vegetable soup with cauliflower

Try to cook exotic for Russian cuisine soup with fresh green beans and cauliflower. For making this recipe you need to purchase the following products:

• 200 g fresh asparagus (needle) beans;
• 300 g fresh cauliflower;
• 3 potatoes;
• 1 pc. carrots and onions;
• 0, 5 cups of rice;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• spices and herbs - to taste.

To prepare the soup with beans and cauliflower, pour in the pan 2, 5 liters of water and put on fire. Then add the water finely chopped potatoes and washed rice. Cook over medium heat for about half an hour. Grate carrots, onions chop knife. As you add cooked potatoes in the soup fresh beans and cauliflower. At the same time, fry in vegetable oil onion and carrots put in the soup. Boil bean soup for about 10 minutes until cooked rice and vegetables, then remove from heat. When a table in a dish to add fresh herbs.

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Soup with tomatoes

And, of course, talking about the meatless soups, we can not say about such delicious dishes as bean soup. Cooking recipes like soups a lot, but it is worth paying attention to one of them. Due to the fact that in the preparation of dishes using canned beans, cooking it takes a minimum of time.

For the preparation of the recipe, prepare the following ingredients:

• 2 cans of canned red beans;
• 3-4 pieces. tomatoes;
• 1 pc. Bulgarian red pepper, carrot and onion;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• vegetable oil;
• fresh parsley.

First of all you need to pour boiling water over the tomatoes and remove their skin. Then, tomatoes, peppers and onions cut into medium-sized cubes. Carrots rubbed on a coarse grater. Garlic crushed. After that you need to take a pot with a thick bottom, to warm it a little vegetable oil, put the chopped onion and fry until soft state. Then add the garlic and lightly fried with onions. Then in the pan to add carrots and all warm up no more than 3 minutes. Then add tomatoes and peppers are fried for another 2 minutes.

In the last turn to the vegetables add 1 can of beans. Before that, she needed to drain fluid. In a saucepan filled with 1 liter of water, and everything is cooked for 0, 5 hours. Ready bean soup is removed from the heat and using a blender to puree the state is brought. After that, the pan is required to return the gas, add a second can of beans, pepper, salt and boil. Before serving the soup you need to give a little brew and sprinkled with fresh chopped parsley.

Be sure to try to cook not only the above recipes, and others which today there is a huge amount. Bean soup gives the human body the energy to replenish stocks of energy and vitality, restores muscle tissue. And while your figure will remain the same slim and taut, because the calories found in legumes, not deposited in the extra weight.