soybean minestra

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If this looks familiar to you, you likely saw it posted her when we featured

Paulette Mitchell's COMPLETE SOY book.

 

I'm leaving it to you to remove the ham bone option....

 

 

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Soybean Minestra

 

Recipe By :Victor D'Avila-Latourrette

Serving Size : 8 Preparation Time :0:00

Categories : 12 December New Import

Soups and Stews

 

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

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6 tablespoons olive oil

4 ripe tomatoes -- peeled

4 garlic cloves

4 parsley sprigs

2 leeks -- chopped

8 leaves sorrel or spinach

10 cups water

2 potatoes -- cubed

1 carrot -- sliced

1 celery stalk -- sliced

1 1/2 cups cooked soybeans

(one 15-ounce can, drained and rinsed)

10 string beans -- cut small

1 ham bone (optional)

(or 2 bouillon cubes)

salt and pepper -- to taste

 

1. Pour olive oil into large soup pot. Pass the peeled tomatoes, garlic cloves,

and parsley through a small food processor or blend in blender. Put the mixture

in the soup pot and cook slowly over medium heat.

 

2. Add the chopped leeks, sorrel, and 2 cups water. Bring to a boil and cook for

about 10 minutes. Add the potatoes cut into cubes, the sliced carrot, celery;

soybeans, string beans, ham bone, and 8 cups of water (more if needed).

 

3. Cover the pot and cook slowly for 1 1/2 hours over low-medium heat. Turn off

the heat and add salt and pepper. Let the soup sit for about 15 minutes. Serve

hot.

 

VARIATION:

To make a complete meal out of it, add 1 cup of rice, and for extra zest and

taste, add 1 cup dry white wine.

 

SORREL is an herb, related to buckwheat. It's a bitter or sour green. Any leafy

green may be substituted to taste.

 

 

Substitute any small creamy bean (black eyed pea, flageolets, navy, etc.) [

Editing note: the recipe asks for " 1 1/2 cups soybeans " without elaboration

except the instruction to cook them for 90 minutes. Its most likely that if he

meant fresh ones, he would have mentioned the word " green " as part of the

description. Hence the ingredient is not described as " cooked soybeans " PatH]

 

 

Cuisine:

" Italy "

Source:

" 1998 Twelve Months of Monastery Soups by Victor D'Avila-Latourrette "

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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 227 Calories; 14g Fat (50.0% calories

from fat); 9g Protein; 21g Carbohydrate; 7g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 56mg

Sodium. Exchanges: 1/2 Grain(Starch); 1/2 Lean Meat; 2 1/2 Vegetable; 2 Fat.

 

NOTES : Soybeans are very nutritious, but they don't seem to have much flavor.

However, the blend of soybeans and all the other vegetables in this soup creates

a delicious and very distinctive taste, similar to a minestrone.

 

Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 1423 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

 

 

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