Hearty White Bean Soup

Name: Hearty White Bean Soup
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: , Salt and pepper; 1 pound (2 1/2 cups), dried cannellini beans, picked over and rinsed; 6 slices, bacon, chopped fine; 1 pound, Swiss chard, stems chopped, leaves sliced 1/2 inch thick; 1 , onion, chopped; 2 , celery ribs, cut into 1/2-inch pieces; 2 , carrots, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces; 8 , garlic cloves, minced; 4 cups, chicken broth; 2 , bay leaves; 1 sprig, fresh rosemary; 1 , (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2014

Main Courses

Beans

Soups

Granted, cooking dried beans takes time, so you need to plan ahead. But creamy, flavorful beans are well worth the (mostly hands-off) wait. Our techniques yield perfect soup, and much more.

SERVES8

TIME1¾ hours, plus 8 hours brining

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Here in the test kitchen we know that flavorful, tender beans start with a soak in salty water. For this stew, we brine dried cannellini beans overnight. Bacon provides a smoky flavor base for this mostly vegetable dish, and we use the rend...

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