Navy Bean Soup

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.

Navy Bean Soup

Ingredients

• 1 pound navy beans (or 1 large can of navy beans)
• 2 1/2 quarts water
• 1/4 cup diced salt pork
• 3/4 cup carrots, diced
• 3/4 cup onion, chopped
• 3/4 cup celery, chopped
• 3/4 cup raw potato, chopped
• 1 garlic clove, chopped
• 1 small piece of bay leaf
• 2 whole cloves
• salt and pepper
• 1 ham bone
• 1 tablespoon chopped parsley

Method

Tips:

• This recipe calls for a ham bone, but you can substitute 4 ounces of chopped ham. The ham bone gives this soup a wonderful flavor and is a great use for the leftover ham bone.
• Leave the ham out totally for a vegetarian bean soup recipe. It really is tastier with the ham though.

The recipe calls for a ham bone and this bean soup is a terrific recipe for using up a leftover ham bone.

You don’t have to wait to have a ham bone on hand to enjoy this recipe though. Just substitute 4 to 6 ounces of chopped ham.

The ham bone does give the soup a wonderful rich flavor though, so if you have the ham bone, use it.

You can make this soup vegetarian simply by leaving any of the meat out. I do think in this case that the ham does add extra flavor, but you can certainly make it a good vegetarain soup too.

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