Best Great Northern Bean Soup Recipes

GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a stockpot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and garlic in hot oil until the onion is tender, about 5 minutes.
• Stir carrots and celery into the onion mixture. Pour vegetable broth into the stockpot; add potato, bay leaves, basil, sea salt, pepper, and thyme. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook at a simmer until the vegetables are beginning to soften, about 20 minutes.
• Stir beans into the soup; continue simmering until the beans are hot and tender, about 20 minutes more.

HAM AND GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Cut ham off bone in bite-size pieces, reserving bone. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a skillet over medium heat and fry ham pieces in hot butter until lightly browned, about 4 minutes.
• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large saucepan; cook and stir onion, carrots, and garlic in the hot butter until softened and onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Pour undrained beans into vegetables, add ham and reserved ham bone, and pour in water to make soup your desired thickness. Stir bay leaves into soup and season with salt and black pepper.
• Bring soup to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for 25 minutes. Remove ham bone and bay leaves before serving.

HAM AND GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP FOR THE CROCK POT

Steps:

• Place the soaked and rinsed beans in a 5- or 6-quart crock pot. Look them over one more time for any bad beans or foreign matter.
• Add chopped carrots and onion.
• Pour chicken broth (pan drippings/chicken broth combination if you're using it) over beans, carrots, and onion. Mix gently.
• Add ham and stir again.
• Throw in ground thyme, basil, and ground black pepper. (Measurements in ingredients section are a guesstimate, I hardly ever use measuring spoons when cooking, I just make a cup in my hand and eyeball it.) To my tastebuds, a little thyme goes a long way so you may wish to add more than 1/2 teaspoon. Stir again.
• Add bay leaf and push it gently under the surface of the broth so it doesn't float.
• Cook on high for 1 hour, then low for 8 hours, stirring once in a while if you can. You could probably just cook on low for 8-9 hours if there's nobody home to change the setting. I just like to get things heated up and moving so I do high for an hour on just about everything I put in a Crock Pot.
• Remove the bay leaf.
• Add salt just before serving to the whole pot or individual bowls.
• This may taste good with a drop of Dijon mustard in individual bowls or even a tablespoon or two of cream.
• If it's too thin, just take the lid off for a while.

GREAT NORTHERN BEAN N HAM SOUP / CROCK POT

Steps:

• 1. Place your beans in a large bowl; cover with water and soak overnight. After soaking, pick through and discard any stones or shriveled beans. Rinse thoroughly and place in an 8 quart crock pot. Add all remaining ingredients except for the chopped ham, unless you aren't using a bone. I just use the bone and its meat for cooking, then add other cubed ham at the end.
• 2. Once all ingredients are added; stir as best as you can - mainly to mix in the bouillon. Place on the lid. Turn pot on low and cook for 6 - 8 hours or on high for 4 - 5 1/2 hours; or until the bean are creamy. All pots cook differently. I started mine on low for the first 4 hours, then turned to high for another 3 1/2 hours...was perfect..

GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Rinse and drain beans.
• Heat water, beans, bay leaves, onion, bacon and potatoes to boiling in 8-qt. stock pot; boil 2 minutes. Turn off heat, cover, and let stand 1 hour.
• Add tomato sauce, instant bouillon, salt, pepper, garlic and half of the carrots and celery to beans. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer until beans are tender, about 2 hours (do not boil or beans will burst).
• Stir remaining carrots and celery into soup. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer until vegetables are tender, about 1 hour. Stir in additional 1 or 2 cups water for thinner consistency.
• Using a slotted spoon and a wooden spoon, scoop potatoes against inside of pot and smash them, letting smashed potatoes drop back into the soup.
• Stir in butter and milk and serve immediately.

LISA'S DRIED GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Look over the beans and remove any rocks or broken beans. Rinse the beans and put in a large pot. Add water, about 8 cups or enough to cover by at least an inch. Bring to a boil on stove. Add onions, garlic, bay leaf and ham hock. Return to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 2 to 3 hours, stirring occasionally. Makw sure you don't run out of water and that the beans don't scorch. Add more water if necessary.
• After beans have softened (about 2 hours), add salt and pepper to taste.
• Continue cooking until beans are done. Make sure the soup is not too thick or too thin. (I usually get it too thick but you can always add water to thin it out.). Remove bay leaf and serve.

QUICK GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP W/ KIELBASA

Steps:

• Cut sausage into bite sized peices. Put onion and sausage in large sauce pan over medium heat. Cook until heated through, about 5 minutes.
• Add all other ingredients, bring to a boil.
• Turn heat to low and simmer 20 minutes.
• Remove bayleaf.

GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• 1. In a very large pot, add ham bone, chicken broth and enough water to cover bone, and start on a low simmer. Pick through beans for dirt and pebbles, wash and add to pot after about 1/2 hour to 45 minutes or so of the ham bone cooking.
• 2. In the mean time chop all of the veggies to be added to pot, then add to pot, as well as add bay leaves. Continue to cook over low heat, stir occassionally to prevent beans from sticking. I put these on early so they could cook slowly for hours over low heat. You can presoak if you do not have a lot of time.
• 3. After a few hours, the meat on the ham bone will fall off & distribute into the beans, continue to cook, until mixture is thick and rich looking, TASTE AND ADD SALT AND PEPPER IF NEEDED. Cook until beans are very tender & liquid has thickened and carrots tend to float to the top of the soup. Remove bay leaves before serving.
• 4. Serve with your favorite bread or crackers, I made Brown Soda Bread, but Honey Corn Bread mini Loaves would be great, or Mama's Butter Milk Corn Bread, or Hot Water Corn Bread, any of which would compliment this soup very well. All of these recipes are mine and are listed here at Just A Pinch.
• 5. Please Note, you may need to add additional liquid to soup as it continues to cook. Stir often to prevent beans from sticking to pot.

DISNEY'S GREAT NORTHERN BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Soak beans over night.
• Drain and rinse.
• In soup pot add beans water and bouillon bring to boil reduce heat and simmer.
• Cook 1 hour until tender but firm on the inside.
• Add celery,onion,carrots, cook 30 minutes until tender.
• Add ham,tomato and spices cook 10 minutes.
• Add cornstarch and water mix.
• simmer 5-10 minutes until thickened.
• Cool 10-15 minutes.
• mix well and serve.

GREAT NORTHERN BEAN & OLIVE SOUP

Steps:

• Saute the onions and garlic in olive oil over medium heat until onions are translucent.
• Add carrot to mixture and simmer for 4 minutes.
• Add the remaining ingredients.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes until vegetables are cooked.
• Serve with italian or sourdough bread slices.

GREAT NORTHERN BEANS, BEEF VEGIE BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Sort, rinse, soak your beans first.
• 2. Place water on a boil, add beans tomatoes and fresh vegetables. Do not drain the tomatoes. Just pour the whole can in.. It adds flavor.
• 3. After soup has boiled for approx 2hr.. Add the meat. Continue to cook on medium boil for 1 more hour. Stir occasionally to prevent any sticking or burning.
• 4. Now, you can Add your beef bouillon cubes, Worcestershire sauce and the Grill Mates seasoning. You can add any other spices you choose. Some, Tabasco sauce will spice this up nicely. Let the soup simmer on medium boil for another hour.
• 5. When your beans are at your preferred tenderness, serve it up!
• 6. You can also add shredded cheese as a topping garnish.. I prefer, shredded Colby Jack. Garlic bread is also great with this!