I found this recipe in a recent issue of ALL YOU magazine and it looked easy, frugal, and delicious. Exactly my kind of recipe. 🙂
Honestly, I was not expecting this recipe to be as delicious as it turned out to be. I thought it would be yummy, but I didn’t expect it be one of those major winner recipes.
Jesse was out with Kaitlynn at her ice skating practice last night and when he walked in the door, his first remark was, “That smells so good.” And it did.
But it tasted even better than it smelled! In fact, I wanted to eat it straight from the soup pot. 🙂
Jesse kept commenting as he was eating it last night, “This is such a great recipe.” I totally agreed.
What surprised me most of all was that our kids loved it, too. They even asked if they could please eat the leftovers today.
It’s a simple recipe and it’s packed with good-for-you ingredients. If you wanted to kick it up a notch, you could add some hot sauce or salsa to it.
I also think it’d be great served with some crushed tortilla chips, cheese, sour cream, and sliced avocado. If you have a family who isn’t really into meatless meals, you could add some cooked chopped chicken.
Black Bean Soup
Adapted slightly from ALL YOU magazine
- 1 1/2 Tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 medium red bell pepper, seeded and diced
- 4 carrots, diced
- 3 ribs celery, thinly sliced
- 1 Tablespoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 6 cups chicken broth
- 4 15-oz. cans black beans, drained and rinsed (you can also make your own recipe-ready black beans)
- Salt and pepper
Saute onion, garlic, pepper, carrots, and celery in oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir occasionally and cook until softened. Add chili powder and cumin and saute for a few more minutes.
Stir in broth and beans and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 25 minutes. Stir occasionally.
Remove a few cups of the soup and puree in a blender. Stir pureed soup back into the soup, season with salt and pepper, and simmer for about 5 more minutes.
Serves 6.

What are your favorite soups for fall and winter? Any recipes you think we must try? I’d love to hear!
I love making this soup. Such odd pairings, but a delicious result!
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/one-of-each-soup-105905
Hi, thanks so much for a wonderful black bean soup recipe, we love it! The males in my family love this Italian Wedding Soup from allrecipes. I sub spinach for the escarole and always double the recipe.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Italian-Wedding-Soup-I/Detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e11=italian%20wedding%20soup&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e7=Home%20Page&soid=sr_results_p1i2
Any one got a good coconut milk curry soup recipe?
I love black bean..and I know you are on a low sugar or no sugar diet…I thought you might enjoy this recipe….I LOVE IT! It’s simple and inexpensive and soooo yummy my husband loves it too! I have added cucumbers to mine and that was awesome as well. It’s an avocada white bean salad with an amazing easy dressing. You need to try this! http://www.foreverafterblog.com/2013/09/avocado-white-bean-salad-with.html
Thanks. Sounds so amazing, with a vegetarian in the family I’m always looking for recipes that pack protein. I’ll be making this and substituting veggie broth for the cchicken.
My favorite soup..
http://www.howsweeteats.com/2012/02/mother-lovetts-bean-soup/
I do not like ham and bean soup, but knew I needed to find one that I did like because of the bean stockpile I had and ham we had eaten. So I searched and found this recipe online.
It was so good! It is truly a comfort food! My small kids love it and ask me to make it all the time. It’s their favorite too.
For this recipe I use any type of beans (canned or bagged) and I use quite a bit more beans than it calls for. I love to put in half butter beans and half navy beans or northern beans. I also throw everything in the crock pot and let it cook all day. House smells wonderful and dinner is delicious! It does make a huge pot (doesn’t quite all fit in the crock pot) so I freeze the rest. What amazes me is that the beans stay perfect after freezing. I figured they would be mushy…not a bit! So good out of the freezer too!
I made this tonight, as well as a loaf of crusty French bread. I did use an immersion blender to make it more acceptable to my one son who is very sensitive to texture. And yes, I cooked the beans myself, which was quick since I used a pressure cooker.
Thanks for the recipe!
You’re so welcome!
Crystal, this soup looks amazing! It was 90 degrees here in Upstate NY today, but tomorrow will be cool and rainy. Perfect soup weather 🙂 I have a question about the servings, it says it makes six servings, and you had leftovers? But we have the same family size as you (basically) and we would never have leftovers. Did you double it? Thank you!
Laurie
Yes, we did have leftovers… it makes a full pot (at least six adult-sized servings of 1-2 bowls each) and my kids are still small so they usually eat what would amount to a half serving.
We love Cuban black beans ( so so good!) Here is my recipe:
http://www.homeecathome.com/the-home-economist/cuban-black-beans
We also love Butter Bean Soup which is so easy in the crock pot and inexpensive. The boys love it too.
http://www.homeecathome.com/the-home-economist/slow-cooker-butter-bean-soup
Thanks so much for sharing!
This looks good…for winter. lol Ice Skating? It’s still swimming weather in my neck of the woods. : )
My husband doesn’t even want a “hot” meal of any sort most days. I LOVE soup, though! It’s often the best combo of easy, cheap, and healthy. Tortilla soup is a favorite around here. Looking forward to cooler weather…some day.
; )
It’s an indoor rink so she did lessons most all summer long! 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing the recipe. I just put it on my meal planner, and wrote the ingredients on my shopping list. We’ll be enjoying this Sunday night. <3
Our favorite soup, the ONLY soup my hubby and children eat happily and willingly…heck, they BEG for it…is YOUR hamburger vegetable soup. Seriously, never saw my hubby eat soup in 30+ yrs of marriage. But he loves that stuff. He even offers to make it, and the man can’t boil water.
My veggie hating kids eat it up and compliment me the whole time. They’re already saying they can’t wait for winter so I will make it again. HAHA!!
Yay! This makes me so very happy!
I make your vegetable beef soup too, Crystal! In fact, just made it last night. ;). The only thing I changed was to use ground turkey instead of beef, since I didn’t want to pay the beef price. I freeze the leftovers in lunch size portions (adding hot sauce to each) and they are great for my husband to take along. Thank you for your blog, Crystal.
I love this! Thanks for sharing!
We love it too, but it is now known as Evie’s Favorite Red Soup! I puree it for my 4 and 2 year olds and they will slurp up 2-3 bowls of it! My daughter is SO PICKY so I love watching her eat all that protein and veggies without a fight! I freeze small servings of it to thaw for their lunches. That recipe is a life saver!
That makes me SO happy to hear! Yay!
This is our favorite soup. Turkey Chili with White Beans-http://www.ourfamilyeats.com/2011/11/turkey-chili-with-white-beans/
It freezes very well so I make it in a big batch and freeze containers for later. I actually make turkey breasts just to make this soup.
Your soup looks wonderful and also looks like a good one for the freezer. I can my own black beans so I am all set to make that one.
Thanks so much for sharing the recipe — yum!
Wow, that looks amazing. We love black beans. I’m going to bookmark this and try it for sure.
Our favorite winter soup is taco soup (from allrecipes.com) But our “oldest bestest” family standby is Turkish Bride soup (red lentil soup). Here’s a link:
http://faithspillingover.com/2014/01/27/almost-everyones-favorite-turkish-soup/
Thanks so much for that soup recipe!
If you can get me to like black beans I’ll love you forever. 🙂
Gotta have to give it a try. Still hoping to fall in love with beans some day.
Happy Friday!
😉 Well, if you don’t like beans in the first place, I can’t guarantee that you’ll like this soup, but you’re brave if you try it!
Black bean soup is my favorite! after that lentil. This looks like a good one, might have to try it.
Do you have a link to your favorite Lentil Soup recipe?
I haven’t made lentil soup from scratch lately as I found an organic one at Aldi that I love, but when I do make it from scratch it is a recipe from a real touch and feel cook book, “fix it and forget it” low fat crock pot meals one I think it is.
This is my family’s favorite! Making the black bean soup now!
http://www.simplebites.net/simple-food-for-winter-e-book-giveaway-recipe-french-lentil-soup/?doing_wp_cron=1410021656.6654200553894042968750
I love butternut squash soup in the Fall. I can’t wait to try you Black Bean Soup!
Yum!
I make a chicken tortilla soup (from http://www.lovingmynest.com/learning-activities/cooking/freezer-crock-pot-recipes/) that is so good! The original recipe is a bit too watery for our tastes so I add a can of white beans– 1/2 whole beans to the soup and puree the other half with a tad of the broth and stir it in for just the right consistency.
Thank you so much for sharing your recipe!
Made a really yummy white chicken chili with poblano peppers last week-from Cook’s Illustrated, and it was amazing!
Oh, that does sound delicious!
Your black bean soup looks so darn good all that is missing is a good bread to dip into the soup with. Me I love Vegetable beef barley, nothing spells fall better then a rich hearty soup/stew. (seems all my soup are thick like a stew)