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Portugese Bean Soup Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 ham-hocks, cut crosswise
1 cup pinto or pink beans
2 dashes of allspice
Salt and pepper to taste
1 onion (small - finely chopped)
1 garlic clove (minced - you can use 2 tsp of jar minced garlic)
1/2 cabbage (shredded like coleslaw - you can use less if desired)
2 carrots (sliced and halved)
2 potatoes (medium sized and cubed)
1/4 box angel hair spaghetti (broken in half)
1 8oz can tomato sauce
1 Portugese sausage or Polish sausage sliced
Directions:
Directions:
1. Clean beans and ham-hocks, slicing ham-hocks on each side.

2. Fill pot with water until it covers the ham-hocks and beans. Bring to a boil then let it soak for 1 hour on the stove. Keep covered with a lid and the stove flame off.

3. After 1 hour, turn on the flame, bring to a boil, then simmer covered for 2 hours.

4. After 2 hours, sauté onion and garlic in a separate frying pan. Add tomato sauce, salt, pepper, and allspice. Continue simmering for a few minutes longer. Pour into soup pot with ham-hocks and beans. Add up to 1/2 cup of water or more if needed remembering the other ingredients to be added.

5. After 10 minutes, add carrots and sliced Portugese/Polish sausage. After another 10 minutes or so, add the diced potatoes and cabbage.

6. When potatoes are 3/4 done, add the angel hair spaghetti broken in half. Soup is ready when the spaghetti is cooked.

Notes:
I usually add additional tomato sauce near the end if the water level is low - a pour here and there to keep it soupy. I use the angel hair pasta because it adds less starch to the soup.

 

 

 

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