Dinner · 70 min · cajun

Tasso and White Bean Soup

This is the kind of Cajun dinner you’ll make on repeat — dried great northern beans and tasso ham, 70 minutes, big payoff.

Ingredients

• 1 lb Dried great northern beans
• 12 oz Tasso ham
• 1 Yellow onion
• 2 ribs Celery
• 2 Carrots
• 5 cloves Garlic
• 8 cups Chicken stock
• 2 Bay leaves
• 1 tsp Thyme
• 1 tsp Cajun seasoning
• 4 cups Kale

Steps

1. Soak the beans overnight and drain. Dice the tasso — it is intensely smoky, so a little seasons the whole pot.
2. Brown the tasso in a heavy pot 6 minutes to render its fat, then add the onion, celery, carrots, and garlic; cook 8 minutes.
3. Add the beans, stock, bay leaves, thyme, and Cajun seasoning. Simmer 50 minutes until the beans are creamy-tender.
4. Mash a cup of beans against the pot wall and stir back in for body. Add the chopped kale and simmer 10 minutes until wilted.
5. Discard the bay leaves, taste for salt — the tasso brings plenty — and serve with crusty bread.

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