White Bean Potato Soup
I love potato soup and I love bean soup. My husband likes white beans in particular, so the other day I had the idea of making a white bean potato soup. I had to think about how to do this, because I didn’t have a recipe to follow and didn’t want it to be a lot of extra work when we still have sick kids in the house. So, I got a lot of already prepared frozen stuff last time I was at the grocery and put it in the freezer to have on day for a day when I didn’t have a lot of extra time, which was today! So, I pulled everything out and starting thinking about how I should do this, what spices I should add and started throwing things together.
I started with 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a skillet. Then I added some frozen onions and a meal starter with onions, green bell peppers and celery to the olive oil and cooked it till everything was soft (about 15 minutes on medium heat). While that was cooking, I put a chicken broth base into my soup pot. To make this vegetarian, you could use veggie broth. I chose chicken broth, because I’m hoping that it will help knock out the sickness running through our house. I added 2 tins each of pinto, cannellini and great northern beans to the broth, then added some diced hash brown potatoes to the pot.
Once the onion mixture was soft, I added it to the broth and beans. For spices, I decided to use garlic, oregano, black pepper and cayenne pepper. You can add whatever spices you like though. I also ended up adding a little hot sauce to it before I was done. As I was stirring it, I finally decided to add corn to the pot as well. I let it cook for 20 minutes then took my potato masher and mashed about half of the mixture in the pot (you could also use a blender for this, but I wasn’t wanting to pull it out and then I’d have to clean it up afterwards) to make the soup a little thicker.
White Bean Potato Soup
Ingredients
2 T Olive oil
1 onion-chopped
1 frozen bag of chopped green bell pepper and celery or
1/2 green bell pepper-chopped and
2 celery stalks – chopped
Chicken or vegetable broth
2 cans Cannellini beans
2 cans Pinto beans
2 cans Great Northern beans
1 bag frozen corn (optional)
Diced potatoes
1 T Oregano
1 T Garlic
1 T Black Pepper
1/2 t Cayenne Pepper
Hot Sauce (optional)
In a skillet put the olive oil, onions, bell pepper and celery on med heat. Cook until soft, about 15 minutes. In a soup pot, combine the broth, beans and potatoes. Add the softened onion mix. Add spices to desired taste. Cook for 30 minutes, then mash appx half of the soup. Enjoy.
I’m always looking for new winter recipes! This sounds delicious and exactly what kind of comfort food I need in my life right now! Thanks for sharing!
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You are welcome. I thought it turned out pretty well, and I’m always trying to find ways to make things as easy as possible. I hope you enjoy it!
Your post made me hungry! I will share this with my husband to be! I am sure he will love it!
I hope you both enjoy it! It turned out to be a good soup!
Yum, this looks and sounds delicious! Great post. I’ll have to try it someday soon, especially with the cold weather. Thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
This sounds delicious! I love a good soup and also I like easy to prepare meals, as cooking is not my favorite thing to do! This looks like a great one for me to make. Thanks for sharing!
I love to cook, it’s the clean up that I don’t like, so I frequently try coming up with easy to prepare meals using as few pots as possible. I could have cooked the onion mix in the soup pot before adding the other stuff, but was in a hurry the day I made this. With 4 kids, there is always something going on and easy meals are a necessity for that reason as well. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Let me know when you try it!
Wow that looks good. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
You’re welcome! We thought it turned out really good, especially for just throwing things together. I hope you try it and like it as much as we did!
Looks delicious and super easy to make !! I’m gonna have to try it !! Great Post 💕
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I hope you enjoy it as much as we did! Let me know how it turns out when you do!
This looks so delicious, and we’re both fans of white beans here. I think I’m definitely going to have to grab the ingredients to do this in the near future. It’s perfect with all this cold weather we’ve been having as of late
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We really enjoyed the soup and it would be the perfect meal for a cold day! I hope you enjoy it.
This sounds amazing. We are having a snow day here is Michigan and I want to make this soup!
It was so good! Let me know how it turns out when you make it!