Slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta
Slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta

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Works great with a leftover ham bone after the holidays! See cooking tips below the recipe for more info. Heat a large skillet over medium heat.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta using 23 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta:
  1. Get 1 bag dried hurst 15 bean soup mix with seasoning packet
  2. Prepare Optional 👇
  3. Make ready 1 tsp. baking soda plus enough water to soak beans overnight
  4. Make ready 2 cups diced ham or 2 to 3 ham hocks
  5. Get 1 small yellow onion diced
  6. Take 2 carrots peeled and diced
  7. Make ready 2 stalks celery peeled and diced
  8. Get 1 Tbsp. garlic minced
  9. Make ready 1/4 cup butter
  10. Make ready 2 tsp. dried basil
  11. Make ready 1/2 tsp. black pepper
  12. Take 1 tsp. dried thyme
  13. Make ready 1 bay leaf
  14. Prepare 4 cups water
  15. Take 4 cups low sodium chicken broth
  16. Get 1 (14.5 oz) can Italian flavored diced tomatoes or use petite >
  17. Prepare tomatoes with 1 tsp. Italian seasonings mixed in
  18. Prepare 1 tsp. salt
  19. Make ready 3 cups chopped kale
  20. Take 1/2 lemon juiced
  21. Prepare 2 tsp. hot sauce
  22. Take (Optional)1 1/2 cups ditalina pasta
  23. Take Shredded Parmesan cheese

Add the ham hock, beans, celery onion, bay leaves, garlic, thyme, chicken broth, salt, and pepper to the slow cooker. The slow, even heat is ideal, especially for larger dried beans, and it cooks canned bean combinations to perfection. Plus, you can take the slow cooker with your bean dish along to a party or potluck and plug it in for serving. If your water is a bit hard or you have trouble with dry beans softening in the slow cooker, try adding some baking.

Steps to make Slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta:
  1. Place the beans in a colander and sort out any debris, rinse beans and either add to slow cooker or to a pot and cover with water and add 1 teaspoon baking soda and let it sit overnight it's optional but i prefer it.
  2. If you soaked the beans give them a quick rinse and add to slow cooker
  3. Add in ham, onion, carrots, celery, garlic, butter, basil, thyme, pepper, bay leaf, broth and water
  4. Cover slow cooker and don't open lid while cooking. Set on high for 8 hours
  5. After 8 hours remove bay leaf and shred ham hocks if used and discard bone and add in tomatoes, hot sauce, kale, salt, lemon juice and pasta if adding. Stir up and cover and cook for 20 more minutes and then stir in flavor packet that was in with the beans. Serve and top with some Parmesan cheese if desired. It's also great with buttered cornbread on the side. Enjoy !

One of the best ways to guarantee perfectly cooked beans — ones that emerge creamy and tender instead of crunchy or mushy — is cooking them ever so gently over low, steady heat. Hmm … low and steady heat, you say? Sounds to me like a job for the slow cooker. Full of spice and flavor, great topped with cheese and chips on the side. We love the classic ham version and also my buffalo chicken version.

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