Spicy Slow Cooker Black Bean Soup

Good as a base from which you craft something to your tastes. Sauté and add stuff like onion, peppers, tomatoes, cilantro, ham or sausage…whatever you like. Then crock pot it on low for 6 hours and you have something really hearty. Might want to use an immersion blender to coursely chop about 50% of it. If not customizing, it’s not worth the long slow cook effort and I’d just go with canned beans and a stove top recipe which can be just as good.

This recipe is sooo easy to make. All the ingredients it calls for are staple items in my kitchen, so I didn’t have to go shopping. I added a ham bone I had saved for soup, and it made extraHowever, the first time I made it I did it without the ham bone, and it was still super delicious. I also processed about 1 1/2 cups of the beans to give it a creamy consistency. This is a keeper. Love it!

Very tasty. I added a couple of hammocks and some diced bell pepper. Plenty spicy without be too much so. Could have used a little less broth to make it thicker. Topped it with avocado tomato, cilantro, and sour cream. The glass is my current favorite NA beer

I used to make black bean soup with canned beans. Making this soup from scratch tastes better and closer to the authentic black bean soup we get from a Cuban restaurant. In the restaurant version, onions and bell pepper were used. So, I chopped and sauteed 1 onion and 1 bell pepper and added them to the crock pot. I cut down a little on the cayenne and the hot sauce. Once done. the soup tasted good but it was too thin! I served it topped with some diced avocados and chopped cilantro. I made it again with only 4 cups of broth and the soup had a better consistency. Now, I make this soup in the pressure cooker because I read somewhere that legumes are healthier if pressure cooked (it reduces the lectins).

This was delicious! The only thing I did differently was use Chipotle Chile Powder since for some odd reason I was out of Cayenne. Once the beans were to my desired doneness, I used a potato masher and mashed the beans a bit to make it thick and it was perfect. I added a dollop of sour cream, some fresh cilantro and diced yellow onion. I think some Cotija cheese on top would be delightful as well!