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My Mom's Spanish bean soup. My sweet mom is a very talented artist and the craftiest of crafters; however, cooking has never been her strong suit. It has nothing to do with a lack of ability, but more a lack of interest. She believes that spending two hours hand carving a clay bowl or mug that could last for a century makes far more sense than.

Usually around Christmas Eve, or New Years Eve. We would have it with Cuban bread, or small Cuban sandwiches. We would sometimes be outside nice chilly weather, being warmed by soup and sandwich,. You can have My Mom's Spanish bean soup using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of My Mom's Spanish bean soup

1. Prepare 5 lb of potatoes.
2. You need 1 gallon of chickpeas.
3. You need 1 tbsp of saffron threads.
4. You need 1 of large hambone.
5. It's 1/2 lb of ham.
6. You need 1 1/4 lb of beef chuck steak.
7. Prepare 1/4 lb of salt pork.
8. You need 12 cup of water.
9. It's 3/4 lb of Spanish chorizo sausage the one from Spain.
10. It's 2 of large onions.
11. Prepare of salt.
12. It's 1/3 cup of minced garlic, the mild quarter cup strong garlic.

Drain the salted water from the beans. Fry salt pork slowly in a skillet. Add chopped onion and sauté lightly. Add to beans along with potatoes, paprika and saffron.

My Mom's Spanish bean soup step by step

1. In a huge pot add 10 cups of water. Bring to boil..
2. Add your meats. Cover cook till done. Take the meat out. Take the meat off the bone. Then chop all of meat into bite sized pieces..
3. Add all the meat back into the soup. Here is an option chop the onions and add into soup, or leave whole if some doesn't like to eat onions. Add last 2 cups of water..
4. Add garlic and saffron. Stir well. While it boils, peel the potatoes chop into cubes. Add into pot along with the chickpeas..
5. Cook till potatoes are fork tender over low heat. Serve with Cuban bread, hope you enjoy!.
6. This soup can be frozen. Just add water to thin out when you defrost it.

Add beans with water to crock pot or soup pot. Next add chicken stock, cubed potatoes, cut up sausage, minced garlic, pepper and Vigo. I doubled the batch, gave half to my in-laws and even my daughter who does not like beans (of any kind) ate it after church this evening. This recipe goes in my tasty book!. This taste just like the soup you get in a spanish (latin) resturant which I just love.