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Green Bean Soup Recipe
A meal that's low in carbs high in nutrients and quick to prepare? That must be this tasty green bean soup ready to impress!
Ingredients
- ½ cup / 100ml Oil
- 2 medium Onions diced
- 2 Carrots diced
- 1 Celery stalk diced
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 clove Garlic crushed
- 1 Bay leaf
- 2 oz / 50g Smoked meat like Bacon Chorizo or Serrano ham (diced or sliced) (optional)
- 1 lb / 500g Green beans
- ½ teaspoon Paprika
- 7 ½ cup / 1.8L Water
- 8 oz / 300g Carrots optional (sliced)
- 3½ oz / 100g Sour cream
Instructions
- Pour oil into a pot and add the diced onion, carrot and celery.
- Add salt and saute until the onion gets a glassy / translucent look.
- Throw the bay leaf and the crushed garlic in then saute until fragrant.
- Mix in the optional smoked meat as well.
- Pour in the green beans then add the water.
- Spoon in the paprika and any other optional vegetables like carrots.
- Bring it to boil and simmer it for 10 minutes or until the vegetables get the desired texture.
- Mix in the sour cream.
- Let the flavors settle for a couple of minutes before serving.
Notes
Enjoy!
