White bean soup
Description
This is the Galician white bean soup recipe more popular over Spain, because of its simplicity - Caldo gallego can become more sophisticated with the addition of chorizo or other meats - and we use it because it will be easier to find these ingredients out of Galicia.
Ingredients
1 Cup white beans 1⁄2 Pound ham (country style ham, scrubbed and soaked if required) 1⁄4 Pound slab bacon 2 potatoes (medium sized boling potatoes, diced) 2 Cup beet greens (shredded) 1 Tablespoon olive oil 1⁄2 Teaspoon paprika salt and pepper (to taste)
Instructions
- Wash the beans, cover with cold water and soak for 8 hours or overnight.
- Drain, discarding the soaking water. Put the beans into a large soup or stock pot and add 2 quarts (8 cups or 2 l) water -beans should be covered- and bring to a boil. When the liquid starts boiling, add the ham and bacon. Reduce heat and simmer for about 1¼ hours. Add more cold water if required.
- Add paprika, olive oil, potatoes and cabbage. Simmer for 30 minutes or until beans are tender. Don't add salt before testing first, the ham usually brings a strong flavor. Season.
- Dice the ham discarding the bone, if you are going to serve the ham with the soup, and serve very hot.
Notes
Use any of shredded cabbage turnip greens, mustard greens, kale, collard greens.
Preparing this soup with a pressure cooker is a breeze. Just put all the ingredients together and cover with water -about an inch over the solid ingredients. Beans usually take about 25 minutes once the pressure cooking has kicked in, but it depends on the model. Follow the manufacturers instructions.
Use 2 cans (Net WT 15 oz) white beans of any kind. Drain and wash the beans, use cooked ham or serrano ham - you can omit bacon. Cover the beans with water and bring to boil, add the rest of the ingredients. Simmer until the potatoes and cabbage are cooked, about 20-30 minutes. Check the salt.
Ingredients, metric
225 g
dried white beans
225 g
country style ham, scrubbed and soaked if required
125 g
slab bacon
2
medium size boiling potatoes, cubed
225 g
shredded cabbage or any of turnip greens, mustard greens, kale, collard greens
15 ml
olive oil
½ tsp
paprika
salt and pepper to taste
Percent daily values based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition information calculated from recipe ingredients.
Amount Per Serving
Calories
346.60
Calories From Fat (37%)
127.86
% Daily Value
Total Fat 14.08g
22%
Saturated Fat 4.20g
21%
Cholesterol 38.83mg
13%
Sodium 1570.34mg
65%
Potassium 1144.70mg
33%
Carbohydrates 34.13g
11%
Dietary Fiber 10.41g
42%
Sugar 1.08g
Sugar Alcohols 0.00g
Net Carbohydrates 23.72g
Protein 21.66g
43%
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Description
This is the Galician white bean soup recipe more popular over Spain, because of its simplicity - Caldo gallego can become more sophisticated with the addition of chorizo or other meats - and we use it because it will be easier to find these ingredients out of Galicia.
Ingredients
| 1 | Cup | white beans |
| 1⁄2 | Pound | ham (country style ham, scrubbed and soaked if required) |
| 1⁄4 | Pound | slab bacon |
| 2 | potatoes (medium sized boling potatoes, diced) | |
| 2 | Cup | beet greens (shredded) |
| 1 | Tablespoon | olive oil |
| 1⁄2 | Teaspoon | paprika |
| salt and pepper (to taste) |
Instructions
- Wash the beans, cover with cold water and soak for 8 hours or overnight.
- Drain, discarding the soaking water. Put the beans into a large soup or stock pot and add 2 quarts (8 cups or 2 l) water -beans should be covered- and bring to a boil. When the liquid starts boiling, add the ham and bacon. Reduce heat and simmer for about 1¼ hours. Add more cold water if required.
- Add paprika, olive oil, potatoes and cabbage. Simmer for 30 minutes or until beans are tender. Don't add salt before testing first, the ham usually brings a strong flavor. Season.
- Dice the ham discarding the bone, if you are going to serve the ham with the soup, and serve very hot.
Notes
Use any of shredded cabbage turnip greens, mustard greens, kale, collard greens.
Preparing this soup with a pressure cooker is a breeze. Just put all the ingredients together and cover with water -about an inch over the solid ingredients. Beans usually take about 25 minutes once the pressure cooking has kicked in, but it depends on the model. Follow the manufacturers instructions.
Use 2 cans (Net WT 15 oz) white beans of any kind. Drain and wash the beans, use cooked ham or serrano ham - you can omit bacon. Cover the beans with water and bring to boil, add the rest of the ingredients. Simmer until the potatoes and cabbage are cooked, about 20-30 minutes. Check the salt.
Percent daily values based on a 2000 calorie diet. Nutrition information calculated from recipe ingredients. |
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The traditional white bean soup prepared in Galicia, Spain with their local ham (lacon), local lard or bacon (unto) green vegetables (grelos) and potatoes (cachelos), ask for "Caldo Gallego" or "Pote Gallego" if you visit the region. Grelos are a kind of turnip green and as such they have a bitter taste. Grelos can be substituted by other vegetable, if not available, a favorite is cabagge. Lacon, Galician ham, can be very salty and often has to be soaked in water for long hours to wash the salt away.