And once again, a funny episode from "Cooking with RFC1437". Today, a real man's soup. Okay, for men who aren't too wild about spicy food. So, a little man's soup then.
- two bell peppers
- one onion (not too small)
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 2 mild peperoni
- 300g ground meat
- 400g kidney beans (from the can)
- 500ml vegetable broth (for me it was only 450, the remaining 50 were in the previous cooking frenzy)
- tomato paste
- basil
- cilantro
- pepper and salt
- Chop or dice the onions (I dice, well, sort of like cubes - just small)
- Dice the garlic
- Dice the bell peppers
- Dice the peperoni and wonder when you'll buy a food processor
- Pan hot, add olive oil
- Fry the ground meat crumbly (just put in the ground meat and with the spatula keep dividing the clumps until you have nice small crumbly fried ground meat) - don't fry it completely, it will still be cooked in the soup
- When the ground meat is done, put it in the pot
- Put the onions and garlic in the pan and let them become translucent
- Put the bell peppers and peperoni in the pan and fry for a few minutes together with the onions
- Take everything out of the pan and put it in the pot
- Half a liter of vegetable broth in the pot
- The beans in the pot
- Basil and cilantro in the soup - I am quite generous with basil
- Let it boil, then simmer for 30 minutes (so just not too much bubbling in the pot - on my stove, half a point on full pot is enough for that), stir occasionally
- Taste and add pepper and salt
The whole thing then tastes a bit like a mild, slightly sweet chili con carne. I suspect that with chili spice and hot peperoni, the whole thing is also a usable spicy variant. And can certainly be varied cheerfully with the vegetables. The whole thing then yields approximately 4 normal soup bowls.