A classic and widely popular Spanish soup
Servings: 10
Ingredients
- 1 cup black garbanzo beans
- Smoked ham hock
- ½ lb smoked ham from the hock
- 2 cured chorizo
- salt
- pepper
- 1 small head of garlic
- 1 white onion
- 2 Tbsp Spanish paprika
- 1 lb red potatoes
Instructions
- Soak the garbanzo beans for 4 or more hours. Drain.
- Assemble your ingredients and dice the onions
- Put the beans, hock, ham, chorizo, salt, pepper, garlic, onion, and paprika in a soup pot
- Cook for 4-6 hours
- 40 minutes before serving, remove the ham hock, ham, and chorizo
- After cooling, slice the chorizo, cube the ham, and add them back into the soup with the potatoes.
- Either add the potatoes 30 minutes before serving, or over pre-cooked potatoes when done - a household member is doing keto, so we are adding potatoes at the end for those who want them
Notes
A classic, simple, and popular recipe from Spain, I have been making this soup for over 40 years.
The first morning that I woke up in Toronto, and went for a walk that took me to Edwards Books & Art. I bought two remaindered books, one of which was Bean Feast: An International Collection of Recipes for Beans, Lentils, and Dried Pulses. A recipe for this was in it. I have been making it ever since.
The soup in this image was made with black garbanzos (aka chickpeas), but it is more often made with the yellow ones.
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