I moved to Toronto days before my 20th birthday. On my first morning there, I went for a walk along Queen Street West that took me to Edwards Books & Art where I bought two cookbooks.
One of these was Bean Feast: An International Collection of Recipes for Beans, Lentils, and Dried Pulses, by Valerie Turvey. A recipe for this garbanzo bean soup was in it. I made it almost immediately, and have been making it ever since. The other cookbook was titled Going Bananas and there will be recipes inspired from that as well.

Sopa de Garbanzo
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 12 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
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- Soaking Beans for Sopa de Garbanzo
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- Ingredients before cooking for Sopa de Garbanzo
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- Cooked ham and Chorizo for Sopa de Garbanzo
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- Sopa de Garbanzo cooking on the stove
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- Sopa de Garbanzo cooking on the stove
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- Assembled ingredients for Sopa de Garbanzo on the stove
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