Fifteen Bean Soup Recipe

Fifteen Bean Soup Recipe

This Fifteen Bean Soup recipe is tailored for the crock pot. With this recipe you don’t even have to soak the beans to have nice soft beans. This is a very easy and delicious recipe!

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Ingredients:
1 package of 15 bean soup
8 cups water
2 lb. smoked sausage (or you can go meatless for a vegetarian rendition)
1 large onion, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp chili powder
1 can diced tomatoes (15 oz.)
Juice from 1 lemon

Directions:
1. Rinse beans.
2. Add beans to slow cooker with 8-cups water, onion, sausage and chili powder.
3. Stir to blend ingredients and set the slow cooker on high for 6-7 hours.
4. Once done, stir in can of diced tomatoes, ham flavor pack (if your soup came with one) and the lemon juice.
5. Cook for an additional 30-minutes.
*You can serve as soup or over rice.

Wine Pairings:
We preface all of our wine pairing suggestions by letting you know that it’s really a matter of personal taste. While we do offer our opinions and why we selected a specific varietal, there is no right or wrong answer when pairing a wine with your dinner.

White Table Wine
The Fifteen Bean Soup recipe is a little more difficult to pair a wine with. You could go with a light red wine, but a chilled white wine can offset the temperature of the soup. Since it’s more of a ‘downhome dish’, I would suggest a blended white wine. Typically white table wines are not going to be sweet, nor will they be heavily oaked. I feel that the sausage in the dish would not pair with an oaky white, so a blended white wine seems like the ideal fit. Follow the link to our wine review site to find our favorite White Table wines-LetsHaveWine.com

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