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Serves
6 to 8
Author Notes
Sautéing aromatics sooner than adding your soaked beans makes for a pot of beans that is deep with flavor; cooking them low and sluggish ensures a creamy, stewed result. I love to make utilize of cranberry beans, but every other creamy bean will attain. Soak them overnight in a great deal of salted water, then drain sooner than cooking. It’s good to need to develop sure that that, whereas the beans prepare dinner, the water level in no draw drops below them; if it does, add some extra liquid, preferably hot. You are going to need to bear your beans to be effective and soft sooner than you add the kale in. Nonetheless in actuality be at liberty to add extra cooking liquid to expose it into extra of a soup. I love serving mine over polenta or mashed potatoes. —Marian Bull
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Take a look at Kitchen-Well-liked
Ingredients
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2 cups
dried cranberry beans
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Salted water, for soaking
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1/4 cup
olive oil
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2
medium onions, roughly chopped
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4 to 5
cloves of garlic, chopped coarsely
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1
heaping teaspoon celery seed
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1 colossal pinches
dried thyme
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1 pinch
crimson pepper flakes
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salt and pepper, to taste
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5 cups
liquid (I utilize a combination of homemade vegetable stock and water)
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2 to three
bay leaves
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1
carrot, peeled and snapped in half of
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1
colossal head of kale, washed and chopped (roughly 2 cups)
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Splash of wine or vermouth (non-necessary)
Directions
- Purchase by your beans to develop sure that there don’t appear to be any pebbles or other particles hidden among them. Soak them in a great deal of salted water overnight — ample to quilt them by not not up to 3 inches or so.
- When you need to perhaps perhaps well maybe maybe also very successfully be ready to prepare dinner, drain your beans. Heat a colossal, heavy-bottomed pot over medium warmth. Add the olive oil, then whenever you have confidence it be hot, add the onions. Sauté for approximately five minutes, then add the garlic, and let that prepare dinner for one other minute or two. Add the celery seed, thyme, pepper flakes, and a monumental elephantine pinch of salt, plus a pair of cracks of pepper. Let prepare dinner for a pair of minutes, guaranteeing the garlic doesn’t burn; add the beans, and prepare dinner for a pair of extra, to let all of the flavors launch up to hitch forces.
- Add the liquid, bay leaves, and carrot, and lift the complete lot to a boil. Quilt and simmer for forty five minutes to an hour, checking periodically to develop sure that that the liquid doesn’t descend below the beans. When you need to perhaps perhaps well maybe maybe also very successfully be not utilizing salted broth, you’ll are seeking to add extra salt; attain so gradually, but originate not be apprehensive.
- To check for doneness, develop sure that you just check not not up to 4 or 5 beans. As soon as all of them are soft, but sooner than they fully disintegrate, add the kale. At this level, the cooking liquid may want to bear thickened from the starch of the beans. Cook dinner it till the kale wilts, about 5 to 10 minutes. Model for seasoning. Add a splash of wine or vermouth in uncover for you; whereas you happen to attain, let it prepare dinner off for a pair of minutes sooner than striking off from warmth.
- Motivate over polenta or mashed potatoes; leftovers reheat superbly, but you need to perhaps perhaps well maybe maybe also need to add a splash of water in the occasion that they be conscious thick or dry.