Soup with beans and chicken

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to cook delicious soup with beans and chicken? Very simple. First, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. You can cook soup from dried beans, like me, or canned. The use of canned beans will significantly speed up the cooking time of the soup. The vegetable part can be supplemented or replaced according to your taste. Greens can also be used to taste.

2. Step 2:

   

   Rinse the beans and pre-soak overnight in cold water. You can take any kind of beans. I have white beans. Drain the swollen beans, throwing it into a colander. Rinse the beans well under running water.

3. Step 3:

   

   Take a suitable saucepan, put the beans in it, pour 1.5 liters of cold water and put it to cook over medium heat. Cook the beans until tender from 1 to 1.5 hours. The exact cooking time depends on the size of the beans and its variety. It took me a little over an hour. After an hour of cooking, you can add a little salt to the water. This way the process will go faster. The finished beans should be soft, but not boiled.

4. Step 4:

   

   Flip the finished beans into a colander and dry.

5. Step 5:

   

   Pour part of the beans into another bowl and mash them with a mash. This will make the soup more viscous, it will get a bright taste of beans.

6. Step 6:

   

   Wash the chicken fillet, dry it and cut it into small portions. You can replace the fillet with meat with bone. Broth cooked on the bone will turn out to be more saturated.

7. Step 7:

   

   In a saucepan, boil 1.5 liters of water over medium heat. Put the chicken fillet and the whole peeled onion and cook, removing the foam and stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes. If you have meat with a bone, then cook for at least 30 minutes.

8. Step 8:

   

   While the chicken is cooking, prepare the rest of the vegetables. Peel the carrots and cut them into small cubes.

10. Step 9:

    

    Finely chop the garlic.

11. Step 10:

    

    Chop the parsley also finely. In addition to parsley, you can take other greens: dill, cilantro, spinach, etc .

12. Step 11:

    

    Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Put the carrots and fry, stirring, for 4 minutes.

13. Step 12:

    

    Add the garlic and fry for another 1 minute. A bright aroma should come from garlic.

14. Step 13:

    

    Put the fried vegetables in a saucepan with soup. Then pour in the crushed and whole beans. Season everything with salt, pepper and mix.

15. Step 14:

    

    Cook the soup for another 5-7 minutes at a low boil. At the very end, remove the boiled onion. Remove the pan from the heat and let the soup brew for 10 minutes under the lid.

16. Step 15:

    

    Pour the soup on plates, sprinkle with chopped herbs and serve. Bon appetit!