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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Caribbean >> Rest Caribbean

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Combine beans and water and let soak overnight. | 2. Next day, add chile peppers (or 1/2 red pepper), 2 cloves of garlic to the beans. Cut an onion in half, "pin" the bay leaf to one half with the clove, add onion halves to beans. | 3. Bring to boil, reduce heat, cover loosely and simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 1 hour, until beans are tender. | 4. Chop remaining onion, mince remaining garlic. | 5. Heat oil in large skillet over medium heat. | 6. Add onions, garlic, chopped peppers, celery and bacon to skillet. Cook for 4 minutes until soft, but not brown. | 7. Stir veggie/bacon mixture into beans. Add wine, vinegar, cumin and oregano. | 8. Season with salt and pepper. | 9. Cover, reduce heat, simmer for 10 minutes until beans are soft. | 10. Remove bay leaf, halved onions and whole garlic cloves. | 11. Blend 2 cups of soup in blender, return to soup. | 12. Season to taste with additional salt, pepper and vinegar, to taste. | 13. Serve topped with sour cream and scallion tops. | 14. (Preparation time does NOT include overnight soaking). | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
black bean	1	lb	sorted rinsed dried	1546.7518	282.8605	97.9761	6.441
water	9	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
red bell pepper	1/2		cored seeded	-	-	-	-
garlic clove	6			-	-	-	-
onion	2			88.0	20.548000000000002	2.42	0.22
bay leaf	1			-	-	-	-
clove	1			5.754	1.3761	0.1254	0.273
extra virgin olive oil	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
green pepper	1		chopped	29.8	6.9136	1.2814	0.2533
celery rib	2		chopped	-	-	-	-
canadian bacon	2	ounces	slivered	62.3333	0.7593	11.509	1.4847
white wine	1/2	cup		-	-	-	-
red wine vinegar	1 1/2	1/2		4.2465	0.0603	0.0089	0.0
cumin	1	teaspoon	ground	7.875	0.929	0.374	0.4677
oregano	1	teaspoon	dried	2.65	0.6892	0.09	0.0428
salt pepper			ground	-	-	-	-
nonfat cream	1/4	cup	sour	-	-	-	-
scallion	1/4	cup	chopped	8.0	1.835	0.4575	0.0475

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.