Vegetarian, Crock Pot Romanian Bean Soup

Total Time: 24 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 24 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 cups dried lima beans
• 8 cups cold water
• 1 large onion, roughly chopped
• 1 carrot, peeled and quartered
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 vegetable bouillon cube
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 medium onion, finely diced
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt (optional)
• fresh ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 soak lima beans in cold water overnight.
• 2 drain the lima beans and rinse in several changes of water to float away as many loosened shells as possible.
• 3 place beans in crock pot with 8 cups fresh water, the chopped onion, carrot, garlic and bouillon cube.
• 4 cover tightly and cook 18 to 24 hours, until beans are very tender.
• 5 remove from heat and let cool a little.
• 6 in the meantime, heat the butter in a skillet and saute the finely diced onion until it is very brown.
• 7 ladle a small amount of soup at a time into blender or bowl of a food processor and puree until all soup is pureed.
• 8 return to pot and stir in browned onions.
• 9 taste for seasoning and add salt and pepper to taste.