Legumes Soup

Legumes soup is a first course ideal for the cold winter. This is a very healthy recipe easy to prepare. You can mix the legumes that you prefer more and cook a delicious soup. In this case I cooked a legumes soup flavoured with thyme and I mainly used beans of any type, lentils and fava beans.

INGREDIENTS (for 4 people):

2 Carrots

1 Onion

2 Celery

3 Tablespoons of Extra virgin olive oil

300 g of mixture of legumes ( pinto beans, black-eyed pea, cannellini beans, black beans, green beans, red lentils, green lentils, fava bean)

1,5 liter of water

Parsley

Salt

Pepper

Thyme

PREPARATIN TIME: 15 minutes plus put to soak the legumes 12 hours

COOKING TIME: 1 hour and 30 minutes

WINE: Nebbiolo (Red Wine)

PREPARATION

Remember to put to soak for 12 hour the mixture of legumes. Wash the legumes and mince the carrots, the onion, and celery. Preheat the extra virgin olive oil in a large soup pot, add the minced vegetables and let them brown for few minutes. 

Add the legumes and let them sauté, then add the water. 

When the water start to boil add the salt, pepper, parsley and thyme. Continue to cook for about 1 hour and half until the water will be reduced. Serve very hot with a bit of parsley on the surface and if you like with some crunchy bread. 

BUON APPETITO!