Hello and welcome to you in the kitchen with Matt, I am
your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make a super duper easy
black bean soup.
I love black beans and I love black bean soup.
And this is such an easy recipe.
It's only three main ingredients and three
optional seasoning ingredients.
It's what I would I call this like a pantry soup or like a
food storage soup, because these are items that I
just took out of my food storage, the canned
black beans, the canned tomatoes.
And it's just comes together really quickly and easy and
it's so delicious.
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So what we're going to do is I have a large pot here.
I'm just using my enamelled Dutch oven.
But you can use any kind of a large, deep pot.
And I have four cans of black beans.
And what I did is I drained two of the cans and I left the
other two cans in its juice or liquid.
Now, I'm just going to pour that in there.
All right, and then I have and those were 15 ounce cans and I
have one fifteen ounce can of diet tomatoes in juice.
And then I have two cups of chicken broth, and what I did
is I used one of the N K in RR, that's the brand Chicken
Broth Cube, and I just dissolved it in hot water,
two cups of hot water.
And that gave me two cups of chicken broth.
So you can just buy like the box or cans of chicken broth.
If you don't want to make it, I'll pour that in there.
And that is the basis for the soup.
And then I'll add some seasonings,
one teaspoon of salt.
Now, you got to be careful about the salt because the
black beans themselves already tastes kind of salty.
Same with the canned tomatoes.
There's a little bit of salt, but I just add a little bit
more to start and then you season it later when you
eat it.
One teaspoon of salt, one half teaspoon of black pepper and
one teaspoon of garlic powder.
Put those in there now.
Let's just head over to the stovetop.
All right, and I have the set heat to medium high and I want
to bring this.
Mixture to a boil.
And I'm going to come in here and just stir
this occasionally.
You don't have to constantly stir or anything like that.
Now, once it comes to a boil.
I'm going to turn the heat down.
To medium low and we're going to let it simmer for
about 15 minutes.
And then once the time is up, the soup is pretty much done.
You can leave it like this.
If you wanted to, but normally we will put it in a blender and
blend it all together, or if you have an immersion blender,
you can use that, I'm going to scoop it into my blender and do
it a little bit at a time.
And you could always leave some of the chunks if you want a
little bit more chunky soup, some people like a little nice
or chunky soup, then you could just maybe blend only half
of the soup.
And then leave chunks for the other half if you want
something like that.
So maybe I will just blend that much, which was
about half.
OK, and then I'm going to pour this back in there.
And mix it with the other chunks.
Again, if you have any an immersion blender that works
really well and you could just do it right there in the pot,
but not everybody has one of those.
Most people will have a blender and now we have a nice soup.
And I like this consistency right here.
If you like it thicker than what you want to do, as you
will drain all four cans of black beans of all the liquid.
Now, this is done at this point.
You can also give it a taste.
Give it a taste and see if you want to add anything else
to it.
Make sure to blow on it, just take a little spin and
then blow on it, because it's going to be really hot.
Oh, yeah, that's really good.
I don't think it needs anything else personally, so I'm going
to leave it just like that.
And now I'm going to serve some up.
I'm going to put it in this little bowl.
Looking good, and then if you like, you can come in and
add a little bit of cheese.
Which is what I like to do, and you can leave it like that
or come in here and added.
You can add a little bit of guacamole or slice up a
cut on top.
I'm just going to do some green onion.
All right.
The black bean soup is done and turned out fantastic.
Really easy to do.
Simple ingredients.
If I can do it, you can do it.
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Time for me to dive into this.
Oh, yeah.
Mm.
Mm mm mm mm.
So good.