Pink Bean Soup With Radicchio
Updated October 10, 2023
- Total Time
- 4 hours 40 minutes
- Prep Time
- 20 minutes
- Cook Time
- 4 hours 20 minutes
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Ingredients
¼ pound pink beans, preferably Spanish habichuelas rosadas
2 ½ cups water
2 heads radicchio
2 ½ cups liquid (veal stock, chicken stock, cooking liquid from other radicchio recipes or a combination of these)
Kosher salt to taste
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 medium-size potato, peeled and cut into ½-inch chunks, cooked in boiling salted water until almost done
2 teaspoons shredded fresh basil leaves
2 teaspoons fruity olive oil
Grated Parmesan cheese
Nutritional analysis per serving (4 to 5 servings)
25 grams carbs; 2 milligrams cholesterol; 145 calories; 1 gram monosaturated fat; 2 grams fat; 5 grams fiber; 835 milligrams sodium; 8 grams protein; 2 grams sugar
Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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Preparation
- Step 1
Rinse beans. In a small soup pot, add beans and 2 ½ cups water. Bring quickly to a boil, shut off heat and cover. Allow to sit 1 hour.
- Step 2
Put radicchio in a saucepan and add stock. Simmer for 40 minutes, turning once. Drain, but reserve cooking liquid. Cut radicchio crosswise into half-inch strips. There should be about a cup.
- Step 3
Drain and rinse beans. Return to soup pot and cover with reserved cooking liquid. Simmer 1 to 1 ½ hours or until tender.
- Step 4
Stir in cooked and sliced radicchio, plus salt and pepper to taste .
- Step 5
Add remaining ingredients, except cheese, and reheat to boiling. Remove from heat and serve with Parmesan cheese.
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Comments
This soup will never win a beauty contest, and I'll use half the radicchio next time, but it's delicious.
Made this with rattlesnake beans from my garden as opposed to pink beans. I used a single head of Treviso, but found it made 1.5 cups of material when simmered down; radicchio is overpowering in large amounts, so I used only 1 cup in the soup and saved the rest. I added 4 minced cloves of garlic, as well. I liked this soup. My partner did not, finding the radicchio too bitter. Well, radicchio IS bitter, so this is something like finding a lake too wet, but c'est la vie.
Very strange. Too much radicchio. Not enough other stuff. Don’t make again.
This soup will never win a beauty contest, and I'll use half the radicchio next time, but it's delicious.