Quick Bean And Bacon Soup Recipes

BEAN AND BACON SOUP (CANNED OR DRY BEANS!)

Steps:

• In a large heavy bottomed pan, cook the bacon over medium heat. Remove bacon to a paper towel-lined plate. Remove all but 1 tablespoon of the bacon fat.
• Add vegetables to pan and cook until onions are translucent and carrots and celery are beginning to soften, 4-5 minutes.
• Add garlic and tomato paste and cook, stirring, for another minute or until fragrant.
• Add chicken broth, water, beans, bay leaves, thyme, salt, pepper, and half of bacon. Bring to boil, reduce to simmer and cook, partially covered, for 15-20 minutes or until vegetables are soft.
• Remove about half of the soup, and puree the remaining soup using either a hand-held immersion blender or a traditional blender. Stir blended and unblended soup together and add remaining bacon, reserving some to garnish, if desired.

REAL SIMPLE BEAN AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven or saucepan, fry the bacon until crisp.
• Remove and drain on paper towels.
• Let cool, chop and set aside.
• Over medium heat, add the carrot to the pan drippings in the Dutch oven and sauté for 5 minutes.
• Add the celery, onion, and garlic, stirring well and cooking for 3 minutes more.
• Add the beans and 2 cups of water.
• Bring to a boil, cover, and reduce heat to low.
• Let simmer for 10 minutes.
• Uncover and, with a potato masher or large slotted spoon, partially mash the bean mixture until it thickens slightly.
• Stir in the parsley, salt, pepper and bacon.
• Serve hot.

QUICK BEAN AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan cook onion and bacon on medium heat until onion is clear and bacon lightly browned (If needed add oil to brown bacon).
• Add bean and bacon soup to bacon/onion mixture.
• Then pour half of the can of mixed beans into a bowl and mash.
• Add the rest of the canned and mashed beans into saucepan with other ingredients (if the mixture seemed to thick add the water) .
• Stir until well mixed, and turn heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes or until heated through.

BEAN AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Cook bacon in soup pot till browned but still limp.
• Remove bacon from pan and reserve two tablespoons bacon fat.
• Cook carrots,onions, and celery in bacon fat over medium heat till soft.
• add beans and broth to soup pot with bacon and veggies.
• Bring to boil and turn heat down to simmer for 1/1/2 hours.
• Season with celery salt and pepper and serve with crusty bread and butter.

QUICK 'N EASY BEAN AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, add both cans of bean soup and water; stir the soup.
• Stir in the bean dip (adding 2 slightly heaping tablespoonfuls).
• Add the bacon bits, and stir.
• Cover saucepan, and simmer the soup until it has heated through.
• Ladle soup into bowls, and serve.