Soups

Bean soup with smoked pork ribs and vegetables

A thick bean soup with smoked pork ribs, root vegetables, bell peppers, and tomatoes, simmered in stock and thickened with a garlic-paprika roux.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak ·

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time
20 min
Cook time
1 hr 45 min
Total time
2 hr 5 min
Servings
6 servings
Difficulty
Easy
Cuisine
Slovak
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Bean soup with smoked pork ribs and vegetables is a thick, home-style soup hearty enough for lunch. Onion is softened in lard with bell peppers and tomatoes, then smoked pork, bay leaves, caraway seeds, and black pepper are added, followed by stock and beans. Diced carrots, parsley root, and celery root go in toward the end, and the soup is thickened with a garlic roux—a cooked flour-and-fat mixture—with sweet paprika. You can also use a smoked pork hock instead of ribs.

Ingredients

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Instructions

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  1. Bean soup with smoked pork ribs and vegetables

  2. Soak the beans the day before. (Soaking the smoked pork is also recommended.)

    Soften the onions in lard, add the bell peppers and tomatoes, and sauté briefly together. Add the smoked pork, bay leaves, and pepper, season cautiously with salt, and sauté the meat as well.

  3. Pour in the stock, add the beans, and simmer. Shortly before the end of cooking, add the diced root vegetables and cook until tender. Finally, thicken the soup with a roux made with garlic and sweet paprika.

Tip: Remove the tender ribs from the soup, strip the meat from the bones, cut it up, and return it to the pot so there are no small bones in the bowls. Discard the bay leaves at the same time.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy
714 kcal
Protein
42 g
Carbohydrates
73 g
of which sugars
15 g
Fat
29 g
of which saturates
10 g
Fiber
14 g
Salt
4.1 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Fazuľová polievka s údeným rebierkom a zeleninou

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