Stellar Bean and Corn Soup

I just made a really good soup. Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients

• 5 cups chicken broth
• Black beans (~0.5 cups dry beans)
• Red chili beans (~1.5 cups dry beans)
• 1 seriously large onion (chopped up)
• 3 cloves garlic (you’re also gonna wanna cut this up)
• ~2 cups of fat (some of it was from a chicken I baked earlier, the rest was left in the pan from pork sausages)
• 20 oz frozen sweet corn (2 bags)
• 1 mango (dice it)
• 1 avocado (slice it)
• Lime juice (I just poured for a while, at least a half cup and probably not a full cup)
• Soy sauce
• 1 small or medium sized tomato (cut it up)
• Yogurt or sour cream

Spices

This is just what I used, it doesn’t really matter as long as you do enough chili powder and paprika you can get creative with the other stuff:

• Salt (the perfect amount, which was a lot)
• ~ 1 tsp cumin
• ~ 1 tsp coriander
• ~ 1 tsp paprika
• ~ 1.5 tsp chili powder
• ~ 3/4 tsp chipotle

Directions

Soak dry beans overnight in water before cooking. Change water and boil for an hour and a bit until cooked. Strain the beans and set aside.

Put all your fat in a big pan and melt it. Add chopped onion and garlic once the fat is hot. Cook for 4-5 minutes.

Add all the spices (you can add more salt later to taste but don’t hold back with the spices). Cook for a little bit more until the onions are nice and soft.

Meanwhile, bring some chicken broth to a simmer. When everything is ready, add your greasy spicy onions to the broth. Add half the diced mango. Boil for 10 minutes.

Add the corn and the diced tomato. Add some soy sauce and some more salt if needed (taste the broth). Boil on low for 6 minutes or until the corn is done.

Add the beans. Stir. Make sure everything is still nice and hot, maybe wait a few minutes, turn off the burner. Now add the rest of the diced mango and the lime juice. A lot of lime juice. Don’t even think about using lemon juice, that would fuck up the whole soup.

Serve into really big bowls and eat with avocado and yogurt. No cheese for this soup, it’s not chili.

Conclusion

It’s so good I wrote it up so you better believe me.