Grandma’s Green Beans Soup
Course: Salads and SoupsCuisine: German, VegetarianDifficulty: MediumServings
4
servingsPrep time
15
minutesCooking time
30
minutesTotal time
45
minutesFriday was always the cleaning and laundry day in my grandmother`s house. This yummy bean soup, originally from the Rhine valley, was the ideal solution for a filling dish that could be prepared quickly. The beans mostly came from her own vegetable garden.
Ingredients
14 oz (400g) fresh green beans, chopped into 2cm pieces
4 cups (1 liter) vegetable stock
9 oz (250g) potatoes (for a low-carb version, you can also skip them and add more beans instead)
1 tbsp whole wheat flour
0.85 cups (200ml) liquid cream (alternatively, you can use a vegan cooking cream)
Salt and white pepper
Red wine vinegar to taste
2 tbsp chopped flat parsley
Directions
- Rinse the beans, thread them as necessary, cut off the stems and cut them into pieces of about 2 cm. Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes.
- Bring the broth to the boil, add the beans and the potatoes. Let everything simmer for about 15-20 minutes, until the vegetables are barely done.
- Whisk the cream with the flour and add to the soup while stirring. Simmer for another 5 minutes.
- Season with salt and pepper and add a sprinkle of red wine vinegar in the end in your soup bowl, to get that special, tangy taste.
- Decorate the soup with chopped parsley and serve.
Notes
- GREEN BEANS are not only an excellent source of cholesterol lowering dietary fiber; additionally, they offer the antioxidant vitamins A and C that really help to avoid oxidation of cholesterol – a forerunner to arterial plaque and cardiovascular disease. Also, they are an excellent source of potassium as well as magnesium to stabilize blood pressure level. Due to their low glycemic index, their consumption may assist to avoid rapid variances in blood glucose levels. With all their fiber, green beans really are a filling side dish. Green Beans fiber assists encourage colon health mainly because it has qualities to join cancer-causing toxins, getting rid of them through the body just before they could injury the intestinal cells. Furthermore, green beans contain minerals just like magnesium, calcium, iron as well as manganese, which have all been connected in improving one’s metabolic process.
