New Years Day Soup Food

NEW YEAR'S DAY SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan with enough water to cover, soak the black-eyed peas 8 hours, or overnight.
• Drain and rinse the soaked black-eyed peas, and return to the saucepan. Mix in the beef broth, dry onion soup mix, sausage, rice, and green chilies. Season with pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer 1 hour and 30 minutes, or until the beans are tender. Add water as necessary to keep the ingredients covered with liquid.

NEW YEAR'S DAY LENTIL & FARRO SOUP

Steps:

• In a large stockpot, heat the oil until sizzling, then add the onions, celery, and carrots.
• Cook over medium heat for 4 to 5 minutes or until the onion is translucent.
• Add the garlic, and cook another minute or two.
• Add the broth, tomatoes, lentils, oregano, basil, salt and pepper and bring the mixture to a boil.
• Reduce the heat to a simmer, and cook just until the lentils are tender to the bite, about 25 to 30 minutes.
• Add the kale and farro, and stir to mix.
• Cook until the kale has wilted and the farro has warmed, about 4 to 5 minutes.
• Serve very warm in individual bowls with topping of choice.

NEW YEARS GOOD LUCK SOUP

Steps:

• In a large stock pot or Dutch oven, brown sausage along with onion and garlic. When the sausage browned add all of the other ingredients and mix well. Bring up to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer and cook for 45 minutes to an hour.
• If you want to do this in your slow cooker. Brown the sausage with the onion and garlic first in a skillet. When browned place the meat with the other ingredients in a 5 - 6 quart slow cooker and cook on low 6-8 hours or on high for 3-4 hours.
• Serve with your favorite cornbread. Letting this soup sit a day or 2 will meld the flavors even more.

NEW YEAR'S SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a soup pot over medium heat; cook and stir garlic until it begins to brown, about 3 minutes. Add onion and carrots. Cook and stir until carrots begin to brown and onion becomes translucent, 7 to 8 minutes. Cook and stir collard greens into onion mixture until wilted, about 5 minutes.
• Pour vegetable broth and black-eyed peas into vegetables, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer soup until vegetables are softened, 20 to 25 minutes.
• While soup is simmering, mix quinoa and water in a saucepan, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer until the water has absorbed into the quinoa, about 10 minutes. Stir cooked quinoa into soup and simmer until collard greens are tender, about 10 more minutes. Stir cider vinegar into soup to taste and season with salt and black pepper.

VEGETARIAN CROCKPOT NEW YEARS DAY SOUP

Steps:

• 1) Place all ingredients except for the pasta in crock pot.
• 2) Cook on low for 7 hours.
• 3) Add pasta 1 hour before serving.