My Favorite Navy Bean Soup

My Favorite Navy Bean Soup

You know that meaty ham bone you have in your freezer? The one left over from your Easter Ham back in April? Yeah, that one .... well, it has been 6 months and is now time to use that ham bone!! Time to make some Navy Bean Soup! Fall is such soup weather! My Mom would make this wonderful Navy Bean Soup with the ham bone! So simple and so Yummy! I serve this with a good beer bread .. super easy, heavy bread that only takes 1 hour and no yeast! This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Prep8 hrs
Cook2 hrs 30 min
Total10 hrs 30 min
Servings8
Difficultyeasy
SoupsDinner / Supper

Ingredients

  • 1 pounddried navy beans
  • 1 poundmeaty ham bone
  • 3 cupchopped celery
  • 3 cupshredded (grated) carrots
  • 1 pcsonion chopped (or shredded with carrot food processor)
  • 1 tbspdried parsley
  • 2 cloveminced garlic
  • 0.25 teaspoontobasco sauce (I use cayenne pepper if I am out of tobas
  • 1 teaspoonsalt
  • 0.25 teaspoonblack pepper

Instructions

  1. 1

    Sort and wash beans

  2. 2

    Add 6 cups water and soak beans overnight or 8 hours (I always forget to do this before I go to bed so I ended up simmering the beans per package instructions, takes about 2 - 2 1/2 hours)

  3. 3

    Drain beans, add ham bone and cover with water

  4. 4

    Cover, bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer 1 hour

  5. 5

    Add remaining ingredients, simmer 1 hour until beans are tender

  6. 6

    Remove bone

  7. 7

    Chop ham and return meat to soup