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Cuban Black Bean Soup

A soup of black beans simmered with water, onions, garlic, oregano, mustard, parsley, celery, and crushed red pepper.

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The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the beans

  1. Soak the beans in 2 quarts of water overnight, then drain.

  2. Add the 1 gallon water to the beans in a large pot.

Simmer the soup

  1. Simmer for 5 hours.

  2. Add the remaining ingredients.

  3. Simmer for another 2 hours.

  4. Watch that you don't burn this great soup.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Black beans
Form the body of the soup and soften into a thick, creamy texture during long simmering.
Yellow onions
Add sweetness and depth as they cook down into the base of the soup.
Garlic
Adds sharp, savory aroma that mellows during simmering.
Crushed red pepper
Adds heat to the soup.

The step that matters

Watch that you don't burn this great soup.. Over a long simmer, starches and sugars in the beans and onions settle on the bottom of the pot and scorch easily, which gives a bitter, burnt taste to the whole batch.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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