French market soup
32 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | quarts | Soup Stock |
| 3 | tablespoons | Dry yellow split peas |
| ¼ | cup | Dry black-eyed peas |
| 2½ | tablespoon | Dry green split peas |
| ¼ | cup | Dry pearl barley |
| 2½ | tablespoon | Dry pinto beans |
| 2½ | tablespoon | Dry pink beans or small red |
| 2½ | tablespoon | Dry garbanzo beans |
| 2½ | tablespoon | Dry lentil beans |
| 2½ | teaspoon | Dry lima beans |
| ⅓ | cup | Dried black beans |
| 1½ | tablespoon | Dry mung beans |
| 1 | can | Plum tomatoes, diced (28 oz) |
| 2 | Yellow onions;medium,chopped | |
| 6 | Celery;stalks, chopped | |
| 2 | Garlic;cloves, minced | |
Directions
In a stock pot, heat stock just to boiling (do not boil); reduce heat to simmer. Thoroughly wash peas, barley, and beans; add to stock. Add tomatoes, onions, celery and garlic; simmer, covered, 3 hours, or until beans are tender. Makes 32 cups of soup. NOTE: This soup is sensational and well worth the effort. Finding all these types of beans may require shopping in more than one supermarket. The dry beans will keep for months. As a timesaver, measure out the beans for several recipes and store them in plastic bags. SERVING SUGGESTIONS: Good with homemade bread !nm fresh seasonal fruit.
SAMMY'S NOTE: I keep a cannister of a mixture of beans that need soaking and a cannister of legumes, brown rice and barley, that does not need soaking. I generally substitute whatever is in each cannister for the above ingredients - I'd suggest 1 cup legumes and 1-¼ cups beans. The recipe does not mention soaking the beans, but I would do that.
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