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Spanish Bean Soup takes you on a trip to Tampa Bay, where Cuban heritage is so alive & full of flavor. This simple soup is made with garbanzo beans, potatoes & savory sausage and is just bursting with deliciousness!Spanish Bean Soup

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This soup is a staple in the Tampa Bay Area. The Cuban heritage here brings with it such wonderful food. I am a very lucky girl to live here.  We have such diverse cuisine and I get to enjoy and share it all with  you! 

Now let me say ya’ll this is my version of this soup. (This is my disclaimer for all the die hards -lol) Some people use Chorizo and ham and it is wonderful like that, but this a little spin on it I came up with. Actually, I should give my mom some of the credit. She made it similar to this, I just adapted it a bit. My family and friends just love it and request it often. So, I hope you will too!

A little background on my recipe

We started out making this soup from a Dixie Lilly bag mix (shhh, don’t tell anyone), but found it hard to find at one time and came up with my own recipe. I must say I am so glad I did!  This recipe is so much better. It’s such a savory, heartwarming bowl of Cuban vivaciousness!  Are you dancing yet!!

Oh you mustn’t forget some warm Cuban bread to dip in it! Or an Authentic Cuban Sandwich is perfect with this! Um Ummm UMMMMMM!!!  Just completes it!

What you will need

  • dried garbanzo beans
  • salt
  • black pepper
  • Minced garlic, garlic powder or garlic salt
  • Vigo spanish seasoning
  • chicken stock
  • red potatoes
  • beef smoked sausage 
  • Water 

How to make it

Rinse beans, cover with water and add 1 tablespoon salt. Soak over night.  If you forget this step, just boil on stove top for 1/2 to 1 hour. 

 

Add beans with water to crock pot or soup pot.  Next add chicken stock, cubed potatoes, cut up sausage, minced garlic, pepper and Vigo seasoning. I do the seasoning last so not to splash it out.  You will see what I mean – lots of color 🙂

 beef sausage

Cook on low for 8 to 10 hours in crock pot or bring to boil on stove top then reduce to med low for 2 to 3 hours (or more).

I always taste soup (a few hours before done) and add any additional salt, pepper, garlic (or garlic powder) as needed to taste. 

 Spanish Bean Soup

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Spanish Bean Soup
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Spanish Bean Soup
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Spanish
Author: nikki@soulfullymade.com
Ingredients
  • 1 lb bag of dried garbanzo beans
  • 1 tablespoon  salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1 to 2 cloves garlic minced (you can also use garlic powder 1/2 to 1 teaspoon according to your taste)
  • 3 packets Vigo Spanish seasoning
  • 32 ounces chicken stock
  • 3 pounds Red potatoes, cut up into cubes
  • 2 packages beef smoked sausage, sliced & quartered
  • Water to cover beans and as needed as soup cooks down
Instructions
Soak Beans

  1. Rinse beans, cover with water and add 1 tablespoon salt. Soak over night. If you forget this step, just boil on stove top for 1/2 to 1 hour.

Soup

  1. Add beans with water to crock pot or soup pot. (If you want less sodium drain first, add ingredients then fill with fresh water as needed)  Add chicken stock, cubed potatoes, cut up sausage, minced garlic, pepper and Vigo seasoning.

  2. Cook on low for 8 to 10 hours in crock pot or bring to boil on stove top then reduce to med low for 2 to 3 hours (or more).

Recipe Notes

Notes: I always taste soup (a few hours before done) and add any additional salt, pepper, garlic (or garlic powder) as needed to taste.

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  1. I love that you used dried garbanzo beans! I had the hardest time finding them for a while, but I prefer them to canned. It’s great that you adapted your mother’s recipe, too. Nice! P~

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    • I love passing down family recipes. These beans are a staple around here. If you do have a hard time you can use canned. I have made it with them a couple of times when I wanted to cut my cook time. Thank you so much for stopping by! Hope to hear from you again soon!

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  3. I’m so thankful for finding your recipe! I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m sure it will replace our old stand-by of the Dixie Lily mix. Just like you, we grew up on Spanish bean soup made with DL( I’m from Z-hills). If I had known that DL would be bought again (by China Doll co.) and they would do away with the mix, then I would have stockpiled all of the soup mix that I could find! I knew something was up when I couldn’t find it in Publix!
    This will be my first attempt at making SB soup without the mix for our New Years tradition!
    Happy New Year in 2017
    Tina

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    • Hi Tina, You can actually buy Dixie Lily products online at Southerntraditionalfoods.com in bulk or individually. I grew up in Florida and my grandmother would always make Spanish bean soup! I remember not being able to find the Spanish bean soup mix at Public and just happened to look it up online and found it.

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  4. Hi Nikki,
    Im trying so hard to find the recipe for spanish bean soup that is most like my Moms it was the best and I never wrote it down and your recipe looks the most like it including the warm cuban bread of course , you have to have that, I live in Texas and can’t get cuban bread but when i do go home I go to the bakery and get it hot and we eat a whole loaf in the car and take 2 more for the house. She did use chorizo instead of sausage a certain brand from publix and vigo saffron and ham/with bone, also delicious. Cant wait to try this for that home feeling. My mom and Daddy passed away with in a years time and Im the only child and i miss her cooking so I’m glad I found your recipe, we lived in Temple Terrace. God Bless

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    • Thank you for sharing and I hope you enjoyed this. So sorry it took me so long to reply this went into spam and I am just now seeing this. You could use Chorizo most people do. I have made it both ways and this is my families favorite! I use Hillshire Farms and Eckrich and sometimes a mixture.

      Hope this gave you that feeling of being at home! God Bless!

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