How to make soup with canned beans and chicken

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Probably, many are familiar with such a product as beans. It goes well with many vegetables. Therefore, boiled beans are often added to salads, side dishes, soups, etc. But many refuse to cook dishes with such a component. After all, the process of cooking beans takes a lot of time. If there is no time, then you can use canned beans. This product saves many housewives. So, how do you make soup with canned beans and chicken?

Classic recipe

Canned beans will always come to the rescue if you need to cook the first course. To make the soup delicious, prepare the following ingredients:

• chicken - 0.5 kg;
• beans - 400 g;
• potatoes - 3 tubers;
• bow;
• tomato paste - up to 3 tbsp. l.;
• carrot;
• laurel;
• pepper;
• s alt.

You can use almost any part of a chicken carcass to make soup. It can be back, thigh, breast and shin. As for beans, in this case, red beans should be preferred.

So let's get started

In fact, soup with canned red beans and chicken is cooked no longer than ordinary chicken broth dishes. The whole process can be reduced to the following algorithm:

1. Rinse the chicken carcass parts and place in a container. Pour about two and a half liters of water here and put laurel leaves. Place the container on the stove.
2. When the water in the container boils, reduce the heating temperature. Boil the chicken broth for half an hour. At the same time, the contents of the container should boil slightly.
3. Remove the chicken from the broth and leave for a while to cool the meat. Discard the bay leaf.
4. Peel the potatoes, wash them, cut into cubes, add to the broth.
5. Peel the onion, cut into half rings. Saute the onion in vegetable oil for 3 minutes. It should become transparent.
6. Peel and chop the carrots and add to the onion.
7. Sauté the vegetables for a few more minutes, then add the tomato paste and 2 tablespoons chicken broth. Don't forget to add some pepper and s alt. Mix everything thoroughly and remove from the stove.
8. When the potatoes are cooked, add the fried soup to the soup. To do this, pour half of the broth into a container with vegetables, and then pour everything into a saucepan.
9. Open the canned beans and remove the meat from the bones. Add these ingredients to your soup.
10. After 5 minutes, s alt and pepper the dish, but do not forget that you added s alt to the frying.
11. Simmer the soup for another 5 minutes. During this time, rinse and chop fresh herbs. Remove soup from cannedbeans and chicken from the stove, add greens and leave covered for 15 minutes.

That's it. Your first meal is ready. It remains to bring it to the table. To do this, pour it into plates. Canned bean and chicken soup should be consumed hot. It tastes much better this way.

White bean variant

If you are not a fan of tomato paste or you are not impressed by the reddish color of the first course, then you will need a recipe for canned white bean and chicken soup. What is required for its preparation? The set of products is almost the same:

• chicken carcass parts - 700g;
• canned but white beans - 350-400 g;
• onion - 110 g;
• carrots - 140 g;
• potatoes - 450 g;
• vegetable oil - 18 g;
• laurel;
• ground chili;
• black pepper;
• non-chlorinated water - 2 l;
• s alt.

As the reviews show, canned bean soup with chicken turns out to be original, attractive in appearance and pleasant in taste. Plus, you don't need to soak the beans for hours to make it.

Let's start cooking

As in the previous recipe, the cooking process takes a little time, and to be more precise, no more than 40 minutes. Well let's get started:

1. Wash the chicken thoroughly, place in a container, fill with water and put to boil on the stove.
2. While the poultry meat is boiling, prepare the rest of the ingredients. Peel and chop potatoes. It can be bars or cubes - it doesn't matter. The main thing is to be pleasing to the eye.
3. After 15 minutes after boiling water, add potatoes, laurel, pepper, ground chili and s alt to the broth.



4. Peel the onion, chop it the way you like, and send it to saute in vegetable oil. Make sure that the product does not overcook. The onion should turn golden.
5. Peel and chop the carrots. You can use a regular grater for this. When the onion turns golden, add the carrots to the pan. Sauté the vegetables for another 5 minutes.
6. When the chicken and potatoes are ready, add the canned white beans and then the sautéed vegetables to the bowl.
7. Stir well and cook for another 5 minutes.

That's it. What do the reviews say about this dish? Homemade canned bean and chicken soup will appeal to many. After all, 100 g of such a dish contains about 60 kcal. Despite this, the soup is hearty.