Southern Butter Bean Soup With Smoked Sausage Food

SMOKED SAUSAGE AND BEANS

Steps:

• In a large skillet, saute onions and garlic in oil until tender. Add sausage; cook and stir until lightly browned. Add broth, beans and seasonings. Cover and simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Discard bay leaves. Serve in a bowl over rice or pasta.

SMOKED SAUSAGE AND BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Pour bean with bacon soup into a large saucepan and cook over medium-low heat until warmed through, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Stir tomatoes, sausage, onion, mushrooms, and hot sauce into the soup. Reduce heat to low and cook soup at a simmer, stirring occasionally, until the tomatoes are breaking down, about 1 hour.

BAKED BEANS WITH SMOKED SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a Dutch oven, cook bacon until crispy. Remove with a slotted spoon and place on a paper towel-lined plate.
• Add onion to bacon drippings and cook until soft.
• Add garlic and smoked sausage and cook until sausage is browned.
• Stir in remaining ingredients. Bring to a simmer. Place Dutch oven, uncovered, in oven and cook for 45 to 55 minutes, until thick.

BUTTER BEAN AND SAUSAGE SOUP

Steps:

• Drain 1 can of beans and puree them with 2 cups of the chicken broth.
• Brown the sausage in a soup pot and drain.
• Add bean puree, remaining chicken broth, diced tomatoes, remaining can of beans with its liquid, and all seasonings.
• Bring to a boil and add pasta.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer until pasta is tender.
• Serve with grated parmesan if desired.

SOUTHERN PINTO BEANS AND SAUSAGE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, fry up sausage breaking it up in small chunks as it cooks.
• If needed, drain off excess oil off sausage, leaving 2 tablespoons in the pan with sausage.
• Add chopped onions and peppers, and sauté until soft and tender.
• Pour in undrained pinto beans and tomato sauce; simmer for 10 minutes.
• Serve with cornbread if desired.

SAUSAGE SOUP

Steps:

• Gently fry the onion in the oil in a large saucepan until translucent.
• Add the garlic and carrots and cook until softened.
• Turn up the heat and brown the sausages, then add the passata and stock.
• Keep the pot on high heat until the soup starts bubbling. Turn down the heat to let the soup slowly simmer.
• Cook for 20 minutes then add the beans.
• Let it heat through for 5 minutes, then serve.

SMOKED SAUSAGE AND WHITE BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Soak beans in cold water to cover, overnight (8 to12 hours). Drain beans and rinse well.
• In a large stockpot or Dutch oven, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the sausage and saute for 5 to 6 minutes, or until browned. Remove the sausage from the skillet and reserve. Add the onions and cook 2 to 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, an additional minute.
• Add the browned sausage back to the stockpot. Stir in the beans, bay leaves, and thyme. Add the chicken stock, water, salt, pepper, and cayenne. Bring soup to a boil; reduce heat to a simmer and cook, partially covered for 2 1/2 to 3 hours, stirring occasionally. Skim off any fat, as necessary, if desired. (The cook time may vary depending on the beans, but they should be tender and falling apart when finished.)
• Adjust seasonings with salt and pepper, if needed. Using a potato masher or the flat side of a spoon, gently mash the beans against the bottom and sides of the stockpot, leaving some of the beans whole and some mashed. Continue to simmer the soup for 30 minutes, uncovered, or until desired consistency.
• Ladle the soup into bowls. Serve hot, with crusty bread slices.

BUTTER BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• In a large soup pot, heat oil over medium high heat until hot. Add onions, carrots, celery, salt and pepper and saute until tender. Add chicken stock and bring to a boil. While stock is boiling add frozen butter beans and bring down to a simmer. Cook for 20 minutes, covered. While butter beans are cooking put smoked ham in a sauté pan until just brown on edges and set aside. After butter beans are cooked thoroughly, puree in blender or immersion blender. Once pureed add warmed milk and blend well. Add smoked ham and serve.

SAUSAGE AND BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Bring beans and water to boiling in a medium saucepan.
• Boil briskly for 2 minutes, remove from heat let stand, covered for 1 hour.
• In a large pot melt butter over medium heat.
• Cook onion, leeks, celery, and carrots, stirring, until onion is soft.
• Mix in parsley, broth, beans and their liquid, potatoes and thyme.
• Bring to boiling, cover, reduce heat, and simmer until beans are tender about 21/2 hours.
• Add sausage slices.
• Cover and simmer 20 minites.
• Taste and add salt if needed.

SMOKED SAUSAGE AND BAKED BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the vegetable oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add the sausages and cook, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned and crisp, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a plate with a slotted spoon.
• Add the celery, carrot and onion to the pot and cook, stirring occasionally, until slightly softened, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Add the cherry tomatoes, white beans (and their liquid), baked beans, chicken broth and 2 1/2 cups water. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium and continue cooking until the soup thickens slightly and the tomatoes just start bursting, about 20 minutes.
• Return the sausages to the pot along with the parsley; season with salt and pepper. Top each serving of soup with the cheese.