Pinto Bean and Sausage Soup
4.4
Ingredients
- Prep
- 20 min
- Cook
- 135 min
- Total
- 635 min
Instructions
- 1 Cover pinto beans with water in a large bowl and allow to soak, 8 hours to overnight. Drain.
- 2 Melt butter in a 6-quart stockpot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and celery in hot butter until vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes. Stir garlic into onion mixture and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute more.
- 3 Stir beef broth, tomato juice, sugar, and drained pinto beans into vegetable mixture and bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until beans are tender, about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- 4 Mix potatoes, carrots, oregano, salt, and black pepper into bean soup; simmer until potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes more.
- 5 Preheat the oven's broiler and set the oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source.
- 6 Place smoked sausage on a baking sheet.
- 7 Bake sausage in the preheated oven until browned, about 10 minutes.
- 8 Cut sausage into quarters, then slice. Add sausage and parsley to soup; continue to simmer for 10 more minutes.
By jobblychef