haricot bean soup (english style)

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Haricot Bean Soup (English style)

 

Recipe By :British Aid Committee, Not By Bread Alone

Serving Size : 3 Preparation Time :0:00

Categories : Soups

 

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

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4 cups stock or water -- or more

2 cups milk

1 cup dried small navy beans

2 tablespoons butter

1 onion

1 celery stalk

Salt and pepper to taste

 

Wash and soak the beans for 12 hours, melt the butter in a pan, add sliced onion

and celery, and fry a few minutes without browning, then add the beans, cover

tightly and steam for 20 minutes. Add the stock or water with 1/2 a teaspoon

salt, and simmer for about 3 hours. Strain, and rub the vegetables through a

wire sieve, return to pan, add the milk and bring to boil. Season to taste and

serve. Time about 4 hours. Serves 3 persons.

 

 

TIPS - Haricot beans are the many varieties of seeds of legumes. The mature

seeds come in assorted sizes and may be either creamy white or slightly kidney

shaped: great Northern, navy, small white, white kidney, cannellini, yankee

beans. Or pink to red or reddish brown kidney shapes: kidney beans, pinto,

pinks, Mexican beans. The immature seeds are known as flageolets: pale green to

white, creamy, slightly kidney shaped.

 

Source:

" http://www.iguanaverdepress.com/Books/Breadalone/Chap3/haricot.htm "

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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 416 Calories; 14g Fat (29.7% calories

from fat); 21g Protein; 53g Carbohydrate; 18g Dietary Fiber; 43mg Cholesterol;

190mg Sodium. Exchanges: 3 Grain(Starch); 1 Lean Meat; 1/2 Vegetable; 1/2

Non-Fat Milk; 2 1/2 Fat.

 

NOTES : Not By Bread Alone (Serialized) by British Aid Committee Panama and

Colon, First published, 1940. A collection of recipes donated by friends of

Britain on both sides of the Isthmus of Panama

 

 

Nutr. Assoc. : 1582 0 4214 0 0 0 2130706543

 

 

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