Pinto Bean Soup Pintos Ham Simply Delicious Food

SIMPLE PINTO BEAN AND HAM SOUP

Steps:

• Place ham bone in a 12 quart soup pan.
• Add the water, bay leaves, celery seed, mustard seed, and chopped onion.
• Bring to a boil.
• Boil for about an hour, lower heat to a simmer.
• Add red pepper flakes.
• Cover and continue to simmer for an addition 17 hours.
• Skim any skum from top as simmering progresses.
• Meanwhile place pinto beans in a large pan and cover with water .
• Soak beans over night or at least 8 hours.
• Remove lid from ham broth.
• Add beans and enough water to bring back up to starting volume of liquid.
• Bring back to a boil.
• Simmer uncovered for 2 hours.
• Serve.

SIMPLE SLOW COOKER PINTO BEANS AND HAM

Steps:

• Bring 8 cups water and pinto beans to a boil in a large pot. Remove pot from heat, cover, and let stand for 1 hour. Drain and rinse before using.
• Transfer pinto beans to a slow cooker. Add ham bone, red onion, minced garlic, and ham base. Pour in remaining 6 cups of water, or enough to cover the beans.
• Cool on Low until beans are tender, about 8 hours.
• Remove the ham bone, shred meat, and add back to the beans. Discard the bone. Serve hot, seasoned with hot sauce, salt, and pepper.

PINTO BEAN/HAM SOUP

Steps:

• Wash and sort beans. Soak in cold water overnight; drain. In a large 8-qt. soup kettle, combine the beans, carrots, onions, celery, garlic, meat and paprika. Add enough water to cover ingredients by 2 in. simmer, partly covered, for 2-1/2 hours or until the beans are tender, adding more water as needed. When beans are tender; remove meat to side dish. , To make Csipetke, mix flour, salt, egg and oil into stiff dough; let rest for 30 minutes. Divide into four parts. Flatten each part and pinch off pieces about the size of a cherry pit; roll between fingers and drop into hot soup. Cook 30 minutes. Blend in sour cream if desired. Mix in parsley and vinegar; adjust seasoning. Cut reserved ham into bite-size pieces; stir into soup.

PINTO BEAN AND SAUSAGE SOUP

Steps:

• Cover pinto beans with water in a bowl and allow to soak overnight. Drain.
• Melt butter in a 6-quart stock pot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and celery in butter until vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes.
• Stir garlic into onion mixture until fragrant, about 1 minute more.
• Stir beef broth, tomato juice, sugar, and drained pinto beans into the vegetable mixture and bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until beans are tender, about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Mix potatoes, carrots, oregano, salt, and black pepper into the bean soup; simmer until potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes more.
• Preheat the oven's broiler and set the oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source.
• Place smoked sausage on a baking sheet.
• Bake sausage in the preheated oven until browned, about 10 minutes.
• Cut sausage into quarters, then slice. Add sausage and parsley to the soup; continue to simmer for 10 more minutes.

PINTO BEAN SOUP (PINTOS & HAM)... SIMPLY DELICIOUS

Steps:

• Sort dry beans removing broken beans and any foreign debris. Rinse the beans.
• Soak overnight in a large bowl covered by 2-inches of water (slow soak) -or- put in a stock pot covered by 2-inches of water; bring to a boil for 2 minutes; remove from heat and leave covered for 1-hour (quick soak).
• Drain and rinse the beans. Return to a stock pot covered by 1-inch of water.
• Add all the remaining ingredients except for the ham bone; stir to mix well.
• Nestle the ham bone into the bed of beans, cover and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to a low simmer for about 3 hours,occasionally stirring gently in the beans under the hambone -or- until the beans are tender.
• Carefully lift the ham bone (or hocks) from the soup and place on a board so the lean meat can be cleaned from the bones. Return the lean meat to the soup. Discard the bones.
• Enjoy with hot cornbread!
• Freezes well.