Beans are traditional Good Friday dish.
Barley has been cultivated in Estonia longer than any other crops – for over 4,000 years. And pearl barley has been a staple food for Estonians through the ages; it has even been a food fit for celebrations. In the olden days, the tradition in Estonian villages was to make sauerkraut soup with pork and barley groats on Thursdays and Sundays.
You can cook this soup on the traditional way: swell beans and barley overnight. Prepare beautiful and delicious broth, and cook up to 2 hours.
But I recommend the easier and faster ”everyday version”:
This soup has enough flavours, so you can cook this without meat. If needed add some meat leftovers or strengthen flavour with ready broth.
And Use prepared/canned beans and barley groats.
Broad Bean Soup
A nutritious full of flavours vegetable soup
Ingredients
- (stock from 1,3 kg smoked meat)
- 1 carrot
- 1 onion
- 1 glove of garlic
- 4-5 marinated or pickled cucumbers
- 4 potatoes
- 100 g prepared/canned beans
- 100 g prepared barley groats
- 50 g butter
- salt, pepper, bay leaf
Directions
- Melt butter and add chopped onion, garlic, carrot and barley. Mix.
- Add boiling water or broth. Season with pepper, salt and bay leaf
- Bring to boil and remove the foam
- When carrot is semi soft, add chopped potatoes
- When potatoes are soft, add cucumbers cubes and prepared beans
- In case you like to, and if you used water not broth, strengthen taste with stock cubes or add sliced smoked ham or meat
- Let set and season finally.
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I appreciate you so much!
I liked your simplified version, much easier for the midweek dinner. Thank you 🙂
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Thank you for your kind comment! 🙂
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Lovely soup !
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Looks like such a delicious soup, thanks for the idea, and can’t wait to read more of your recipes as soon as you post them! 😀
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Thank you :).you made my day 🙂 :).
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Very nice soup, I will definitely try it 🙂 I love any kind of soup. Thank you for sharing!
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Thank you :).I hope you will like it 🙂
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I will let you know! 😉 It looks great 💞
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Love this simple and vegetarian soup
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Thank you 🙂
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Your dishes are so unique and I will try one of these recipe some day. Most of the ingredients are not on the island where I live. We have a tradition in Jamaica to eat bun and cheese during the Easter holiday. Have a blessed weekend.
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Thank you 🙂
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Hi. This looks really easy to and perfect for a cold day like today.
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Well…I’m certainly pleased. I have wondered how I could, or whether I would dare, add cucumber to the hot soups I love to create. Your simple soup looks very tasty. I love all the ingredients; although I will have to search for the barley groats. No worries…Amazon may have them.
The vegetarian in me thanks you!
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Try rice or buckwheat if you can not try barley. You get different but tasty result ! 🙂
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🍚 it is then. Thank you!
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Looks so comforting and delicious!
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Thank.you !
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Could other beans kidney or pinto be substituted? Thanks!
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Yes, I believe so 🙂
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