Hello lovely people, ok we are going to do an amazing soup that I learnt, inspiration from a trip I had
in Costa Rica and we went to an incredible area where they had this black bean soup.
With beautiful eggs poached in it last minute, incredible with tortillas and a little salsa,
really healthy, it's got 3 of your 5 a day and it's packed full of the good stuff.
So very simply, get some celery and strip in to little lengths like this.
Then we are just going to roughly chop it.
In to like centimeter dice
In a pan, we're going to use a Dutch oven like this, put it on a medium heat
We're going to add about 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
We're going to go in with celery.
Then we are going to go in with the garlic.
Then as you're adding these flavours, the smell is amazing, we're going to get some thyme here
you could use oregano if you wanted to.
Then we are going to go in with the 2 little bay leaves ok.
Fragrance, beautiful.
Then we are going to go in with 2 finely chopped onions.
I'm using red onions but of course you can use white onions, or even leeks if you wanted to.
I like the idea of a little kick, a little spice to it.
so I'm going to add just a little bit of chilli, about half a chili goes in.
Then peppers, we love our peppers.
I just get my thumbs and push in this little stalk and then I pull it up like that.
So remove the seeds, roughly chop the peppers in to kind of centimeter chunks.
A nice little pinch of seasoning goes in.
Whilst that's frying, I'm going to get on with a kicker.
So lets have a look at that, we've got a bowl here
and we want to make a kind of salsa.
I've got a small bunch of coriander here.
I want to use the top half for my salsa and this bottom half, the stalks, they're nice and clean
we're going to finely slice that.
The stalks have lots of flavour, don't throw them away.
They go in, beautiful.
The leaves are going to go in my funky little salsa.
I'm just going to roughly chop the leaves like that.
I'm going to take some chillis, it could be like a jalapeño or could be a red chilli
it can be anything you like, I'm going to take a bit of lime juice.
I'm using these different coloured chillis just because I've got them.
The chillis go in, the coriander goes in.
Then we're going to go in with the juice of one lime.
Add a little swig of olive oil.
A pinch of salt
and then just use a little spoon to mix it up.
It's very simple guys.
So we've got 800g of beans, black beans going in, of course you can use any beans
but black beans are actually the highest protein beans you can get.
Look at, look at the colour, juice and all.
400ml of water.
Right we bring this to the boil, let it thunder a long and boil hard for 10 minutes.
This dish I had cooked for me, a little area of Costa Rica called the Nicoya Peninsula
these lovely ladies, in their fifties cooked it with me and they cooked it for their Dad who was 106 years old
lets turn it down now, gentle, gentle
Let's take out the Bay leaf.
they easily come out, it's done it's job now, frangrance so we can get rid of that.
then I'm going to use a little hand blender and just blitz up, so look I've just blitzed a quarter of it.
What you get is this, you get chunks but also you've got smoothness and kind of comfort there, so a bit of both.
So at this point we're going to have a little taste.
Have a think, that's good, adjust your seasoning
then I want it to be on a gentle heat here
and then we're going to go in with the eggs.
Very simply crack and in it goes
and you're going to poach that egg in that soup
Then we've got tortillas and we can toast these, put them in a griddle pan.
Or you can just put this on a gas hob to warm through, it only takes seconds.
Lets serve this up, this wonderful party dish, there's your egg just like that.
Couple of ladels of your soup and then go in with the egg on top.
Boom
Add that flourish with this salsa
a little drizzle of olive oil.
Right lets have a little look at this egg
cut in there
yes
then just chop it up
get your tortillas
so good
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