Fassoulada (Greek Bean Soup)

Dreamer in Ontario's Note:

This classic Greek vegetarian soup is simple to make. Serve it with lots of fresh crusty bread. From Modern Greek.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 45 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 1 lb dried white bean, soaked overnight
• 1 large yellow onion, peeled & roughly chopped
• 3 carrots, peeled & sliced
• 3 stalks celery, strings removed & sliced
• 3 red ripe tomatoes, peeled seeded & roughly chopped or 1 (15 ounce) can peeled tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 5 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 handful fresh flat-leaf parsley
• salt, to taste
• fresh ground black pepper, to taste

Directions:

1. Drain beans and place in large saucepan.
2. Cover with cold water and bring to a boil, skimming off any froth with a slotted spoon.
3. Add all other ingredients except salt and pepper.
4. Simmer for 1-1/2 hours or until tender.
5. Allow to cool slightly.
6. Season with salt and pepper and serve.

Reviews

[lauralie41]

Dreamer this is one good soup! I also used vegetable broth instead of water and 3 tablespoons of dried minced onion. Did forget about the broth and over salted a bit so do be careful if you sub with broth. The soup has a great flavor, strong and hearty but not overwhelming. Perfect comfort food and I will be making it again this fall.

[Sydney Mike]

I almost always make my bean soups with canned beans, but decided to follow this recipe right on down (well, almost, anyway, but I did use a vegetable stock instead of just water when cooking the beans), & we were most happy with the resulting soup! Fortunately for me I'm the one who has a copy of the recipe now, 'cause after tasting it, my son & DIL managed to walk away with half of it! Not something you can make at a moment's notice, but this is definitely a keeper of a recipe ~ Absolutely wonderful tasting soup! Thanks for sharing the recipe! [Tagged & made in Please Review My Recipe]

[UmmBinat]

This is really delicious. DH, DD (toddler) & I throughly enjoyed this one. I used about a quarter homemade chicken stock for the liquid and that probably didn't do much but it ended up so flavourful anyway. I used white navey beans, I actually didn't have any celery so I added just a little celery seeds for the flavour. I used a good canned plum tomatoes to success, lastly I used sea salt and the rest as listed. I will make this again. Made for Family Picks ZWT6, Greece/Cyprus region, for my team, The Ya Ya Cookerhood.