Recipe: Perfect Navy bean soup (φασολάδα)🇬🇷

Navy bean soup (φασολάδα)🇬🇷. Adjust cooking time if needed until beans are soft and tender. Add carrots and celery and cook for about half an hour. Return beans to Dutch oven; add the water, ham hocks, onion, parsley and seasonings.

This navy bean soup is a simple dish made with diced ham from a baked ham dinner (or a leftover ham bone) and dried navy beans. It's hearty enough to serve as a lunch or supper soup, and because it's budget-friendly you can feed a crowd without sacrificing flavor or quality. Once the veggies are tender, add the drained beans to the pot and get ready to pour in my "secret ingredient." I've found that the very best way to have a flavorful bean soup is to use packaged or homemade chicken stock. You can have Navy bean soup (φασολάδα)🇬🇷 using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Navy bean soup (φασολάδα)🇬🇷

1. It's 540 mg of can of navy beans.
2. Prepare 1/2 of carrot cut in half lengthwise and sliced in to 1-2 cm slices.
3. Prepare 1/2 of celery stick sliced 1-2 cm slices.
4. Prepare 1 of bay leaf.
5. You need 2 of all spice balls.
6. You need 1 of small onion chopped.
7. Prepare 1/2 tbs of bocovo pepper (optional).
8. It's 1 tsp of Salt or to your liking.
9. Prepare Pinch of black pepper.
10. You need 1 tbs of tomato paste.
11. You need 10-12 of parsley leafs lightly chopped.
12. It's 1/4 cup of olive oil(olive oil is the secret here).
13. It's 3 cups of water and some extra boiled water to top up if needed.

Stir the ingredients, then position the ham bone in the middle of the mixture. You'll know when the soup is done cooking because the beans will be very tender. Drain the navy beans and discard the soaking liquid. Rinse beans and return to the Dutch oven.

Navy bean soup (φασολάδα)🇬🇷 instructions

1. Ok here we go. In a pot ad the oil and the chopped onion and sauté till onion is tender do not let it get colour.
2. Now add the water and the rest of the ingredients except the tomato paste and bring to a boil.
3. Now you add the tomato paste and bring the heat to medium temperature and cook for about one hour.
4. At this point lower the heat to medium-low and cook without the lead till water reduces. I like to leave a bit extra water for dealing purposes 😋.
5. Enjoy(καλή όρεξη).

This is a wonderful hearty soup, great for using leftover ham from the holidays. A fairly traditional navy bean and ham soup with instructions for making in an Instant Pot® cooker. I use a package of Hurst's® navy beans for this recipe but feel free to use any dry navy beans. Navy bean soup (or white bean soup recipe as it is sometimes called) is one of our tastiest soup recipes. It is a very traditional soup, mostly using simple ingredients that you have on hand in your kitchen, yet it can't be beat for great flavor.