Slow cooker autumn soup with white beans

Name: Slow cooker autumn soup with white beans
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 490 min
Total time: 520 min
Cuisine: Dutch
Ingredients: 500 g dried white beans; 200 g piece of streaky bacon; 300 g soup beef; 1 smoked sausage (kookworst or rookworst); 300 g mixed soup vegetables; 250 g celeriac (diced); 1 leek (sliced); 2 potatoes (diced); 3 stock cubes; 2 cloves; 2 bay leaves; 1 handful fresh garden herbs (e.g. thyme, parsley, celery leaf); 2 l water; to taste salt and pepper

A hearty meal soup for cold days: white beans, soup beef, bacon, smoked sausage and plenty of vegetables, gently simmered for eight hours in the slow cooker.

520 min
6 servings
Easy

Ingredients

500 gdried white beans
200 gpiece of streaky bacon
300 gsoup beef
1 smoked sausage (kookworst or rookworst)
300 gmixed soup vegetables
250 gceleriac (diced)
1 leek (sliced)
2 potatoes (diced)
3 stock cubes
2 cloves
2 bay leaves
1 handfulfresh garden herbs (e.g. thyme, parsley, celery leaf)
2 lwater
to tastesalt and pepper

Method

1
The evening before, cover the beans with plenty of water and leave to soak overnight.
2
Drain the beans, bring them to the boil in fresh water and boil hard for 10 minutes. Drain again.
3
Put the beans, bacon, soup beef, soup vegetables, celeriac, leek and potatoes in the slow cooker. Add the stock cubes, cloves, bay leaves and garden herbs and pour in enough water to cover everything.
4
Cook on low for 8 hours. Lay the sausage on top for the last hour to heat through.
5
Take out the bacon, soup beef and sausage and cut them into pieces. Remove the bay leaves and cloves and return the meat to the soup. Taste for salt and pepper.

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