{"id":401,"date":"2014-12-02T05:36:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2016-12-23T04:39:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T04:39:22","slug":"black-bean-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Black Bean Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suprisingly, my kids go gaga over this soup. \u00a0They ask what&#8217;s for lunch or dinner, you mention black bean soup and you get all kinds of &#8220;ohhs&#8221; and &#8220;ahh&#8217;s&#8221; like it&#8217;s the best thing ever. \u00a0Perhaps it is. \u00a0It warms a momma&#8217;s heart who is always trying to keep her kids on track with healthy foods so they can grow up healthy and strong. \u00a0 I can my own beans, so while this recipe calls for 2-15 ounce cans of black beans I throw in a quart. \u00a0I often double this recipe too because six kids will polish off one recipes worth in no time flat. \u00a0Remember this is soup &#8211; change things up to your liking.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 onion, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>2 garlic cloves, minced<\/li>\n<li>2 celery ribs, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 c large sweet bell pepper, color of choice, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>2 cups chicken broth<\/li>\n<li>2-15 ounce cans of black beans<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp cumin<\/li>\n<li>Juice of 1\/2 lemon (or squirt in an approximate amount of lemon juice from a bottle)<\/li>\n<li>1-1\/2 tb cornstarch mixed with 1-1\/2 tb water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Method:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In a pot, combine the first six ingredients, bring to a boil and simmer until soft &#8211; about 10 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Add beans, salt and cumin, cook for another 5 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Puree the soup using an immersion blender or do batches in a regular blender or food processor &#8211; be careful! It&#8217;s hot! \u00a0Blend until your texture of choice.<\/li>\n<li>Return soup to the pot. \u00a0Add cornstarch\/water combo, stir well and finally add the lemon juice and cook until thickened &#8211; a few minutes more.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suprisingly, my kids go gaga over this soup. They ask what&#8217;s for lunch or dinner, you mention black bean soup and you get all kinds of &#8220;ohhs&#8221; and &#8220;ahh&#8217;s&#8221; like it&#8217;s the best thing ever. Perhaps it is. It warms a momma&#8217;s heart who is always trying to keep her kids on track with healthy [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}