Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Week 3: White Bean Chicken soup

I did a basic soup with some white beans for my week 3 meal. I got the white beans from a local farmer at the Farmer's market in Falmouth this past summer. I don't have exact cost info for them but they were typical plain white beans and I'm sure any variation would work.

Chicken carcass (or broth and chicken meat)
2-3 chopped carrots
2-3 chopped stalks of celery
1 onion
thyme
1 16oz can diced tomatoes
1 cup barley

1. Cook the chicken carcass into broth and then shred the chicken bits off it (or skip this if you are using premade.
2. soak the beans in boiling water for a hour
3.saute the veggies in a frying pan with a little bit of oil until they are soft.
4. place all ingredients in a crockpot on low for about 4 hours.

Serve and enjoy

Note the barley makes it very thick, so consider using less if you want more soup/less stew-like feeling.

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