American
Black Bean Soup
Black Bean Soup is American home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre, the protein alongside, and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 15 oz cans canned black beans
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 carrot
- 2 celery stalks
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 tbsp ground cumin
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 bay leaf
- 4 cups vegetable broth
- 1 lime
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Heat the olive oil in a pot over medium and cook the onion, garlic, carrot, celery, and bell pepper until soft, about 8 minutes.
- Stir in the cumin, chili powder, and smoked paprika until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Add the drained beans, bay leaf, and broth, bring to a boil, then simmer 15 minutes.
- Discard the bay leaf and blend about half the soup with an immersion blender for a creamy but chunky texture.
- Season with the salt and a squeeze of lime, then simmer 5 minutes more.
- Ladle into bowls and top with cilantro.
Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Black Bean Soup, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Black Bean Soup carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Partial
- Food groups it covers
- Pulses and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Black Bean Soup takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on black bean, onion, and carrot.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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