Kneadle Work

This is the eighth recipe in the third collection in the recipe subsection of my personal website: White Bean & Beef Soup. Click through for the same recipe as below with a photo illustration.

This recipe is posted here at Kneadle Work and also be posted at Kicking Over My Traces, my original blog. After the turn of the year, all my recipes will be posted here along with the illustrated version in the Recipes section of my personal website, in order to refocus Traces on its original topics.

An ebook containing all ten recipes from the second collection is available.

vegetables:
1-1/2 C chopped yellow onion
2 stalks celery, chopped
2 carrots, peeled & chopped
4 cloves garlic, peeled & chopped

non-stick cooking spray

3/4 lb beef sirloin, cubed

spices:
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ground black pepper
3 bay leaves

16-oz pkg white navy beans

2 8-oz cans no-salt-added tomato sauce

2 32-oz boxes low-sodium beef stock

1. Quickly brown the sirloin in a sauté pan sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.

2. Pick over navy beans to remove any broken beans or foreign matter. Pour them in an even layer in the bottom of a slow cooker.

3. Put the browned beef on top of the beans in the slow cooker.

4. Sprinkle the spices on top of the beef.

5. Spread the chopped vegetables on top everything else.

6. Pour the tomato sauce over the vegetables.

7. Pour the beef stock over everything. Turn the slow cooker on low and cook for 10-12 hours.

8. Remove bay leaves. Purée vegetables and beans in blender, if desired (see note).

Makes 8 servings

Note: if you don’t like veggies, leave them in larger chunks to make it easy to remove them. The cooked veggies can either be discarded, or put in a blender with 1 C of the beef stock and 1/2 C of the cooked beans, puréed and returned to the soup to thicken it.

I will submit this to the Carnival of the Recipes.

The first collection of recipes is available as a free downloadable ebook from either the recipe section or the ebook section of my personal website.

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