Recipe: Delicious Slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta

Slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta. Coat inside of slow cooker with cooking spray or olive oil. Well, yes - but that honestly depends on your diet and nutrition goals. I've listed the nutrition under the recipe card, but briefly - bean soup is a great source.

There is a time and place for both, in my opinion. Brownie muffin pastry cupcake cake dessert chocolate cake. Slow cooker sloppy joes made with beans and beef! You can cook Slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta using 23 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta

1. You need 1 bag of dried hurst 15 bean soup mix with seasoning packet.
2. It's of Optional 👇.
3. Prepare 1 tsp. of baking soda plus enough water to soak beans overnight.
4. Prepare 2 cups of diced ham or 2 to 3 ham hocks.
5. It's 1 of small yellow onion diced.
6. Prepare 2 of carrots peeled and diced.
7. Prepare 2 stalks of celery peeled and diced.
8. Prepare 1 Tbsp. of garlic minced.
9. Prepare 1/4 cup of butter.
10. It's 2 tsp. of dried basil.
11. You need 1/2 tsp. of black pepper.
12. You need 1 tsp. of dried thyme.
13. It's 1 of bay leaf.
14. You need 4 cups of water.
15. It's 4 cups of low sodium chicken broth.
16. You need 1 (14.5 oz) of can Italian flavored diced tomatoes or use petite >.
17. You need of tomatoes with 1 tsp. Italian seasonings mixed in.
18. It's 1 tsp. of salt.
19. It's 3 cups of chopped kale.
20. It's 1/2 of lemon juiced.
21. Prepare 2 tsp. of hot sauce.
22. You need of (Optional)1 1/2 cups ditalina pasta.
23. It's of Shredded Parmesan cheese.

This simple crockpot recipe feeds a crowd and it's perfect for busy back to school dinners or for game day! But if you want to cook it on low it will take at least twice that long. When the beans are soft and the beef is fork tender you know your chili is done! You'll add in the tomato products (the acid in the tomatoes keeps the beans from getting tender so.

Slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta instructions

1. Place the beans in a colander and sort out any debris, rinse beans and either add to slow cooker or to a pot and cover with water and add 1 teaspoon baking soda and let it sit overnight it's optional but i prefer it..
2. If you soaked the beans give them a quick rinse and add to slow cooker.
3. Add in ham, onion, carrots, celery, garlic, butter, basil, thyme, pepper, bay leaf, broth and water.
4. Cover slow cooker and don't open lid while cooking. Set on high for 8 hours.
5. After 8 hours remove bay leaf and shred ham hocks if used and discard bone and add in tomatoes, hot sauce, kale, salt, lemon juice and pasta if adding. Stir up and cover and cook for 20 more minutes and then stir in flavor packet that was in with the beans. Serve and top with some Parmesan cheese if desired. It's also great with buttered cornbread on the side. Enjoy !.

I am really getting into using my slow cooker! Because it's just the two of us, I don't bring them out too often because the size of slow cookers I own are too large for two servings. Not all slow cookers cook the same so cooking time might vary. That's it and dinner is ready! This soup was a big hit at our house.