I love the cozy warmth of soup on a cold winter day. I also love my slow cooker – preparing the ingredients, adding them to the slow cooker, turning it on low and… that’s it! You can come back several hours later and the kitchen smells fabulous (and the dog is going crazy!).
This soup is quick preparation with a BIG payoff of flavor.
black bean jalapeno soup
1 tablespoon earth balance
1 yellow onion
2 stalks celery
2 cloves garlic, minced
4 cups vegetable broth
2 cans black beans, one pureed
2 servings rice (1/2 cup rice + 3/4 cup vegetable broth or water)
3 jalapenos, 2 diced, one sliced for garnish
Chop and dice the celery and the onion.
Yes, in case you were wondering, that IS the culprit...
Sauté celery and onion in earth balance.
Meanwhile, puree one can of black beans in a food processor and cook 1/2 cup rice in 3/4 cup vegetable broth or water.
Add 2 cups vegetable broth to sauté pan, combine with celery and onion.
When warmed, pour into slow cooker with pureed black beans, whole beans, additional 1-2 cups vegetable broth.
Add cooked rice, add 2 jalapenos.
Cook on low setting for several hours.
Serve with toasted gluten free english muffins and a salad.
Enjoy!
Do you cook with a slow cooker?
What is your favorite slow cooker recipe?
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This looks delicious! I love my slow cooker and use it all the time in the winter. I take some dried beans, veggie stock (and water, sometimes stewed tomatoes) and just toss in whatever fresh veggies I have in the fridge and a variety of spices and let it cook on low all day. Mmm Mmm!
exactly! and it smells so good…
I think you were meant to be a texan because you put jalapenos in everything, just like us!! Thats awesome. Love this recipe too. So good for the soul.
LC
AW ! I LOVE that… and all of my Austin friends would too!
Yum! I love spicy foods in winter– I feel like they warm me up from the inside!
me too! and soup is so warming also…
This looks like a dish you want to curl up with on the couch on a chilly night. Yummy – black beans are great.
And I absolutely love slow cooking. It’s wonderful to come home to a meal that’s ready after a long day at work. I cook everything in it.
this was my first black bean soup… can’t wait to experiment more!
Oh girl, this is right up my alley. I even have 3 fresh jalapenos from my garden (rescued before frost) just staring at me, begging to be used.
yep – I know you’d like this !!
mmmmm, definitely considering this for my vegetarian week!
do it !! you’ll love it !
Looks great- I love that it’s so simple!
Thanks, Liz! it was VERY easy!
I love how easy this is!
We have a slow cooker, but I always forget to get it out :/
we use ours so much in the winter, it sometimes doesn’t get put away!
i love my slow cooker!
lentil soup is one of my favorites
and i use it to cook dried beans (because if i do them on the stove i ALWAYS manage to make them boil over!)
that’s a great way to cook dried beans… I’ll have to remember that!
I don’t have a slow cooker… yet!! Love your bright colored cutting board
thanks!
Yum! We don’t have a slow cooker but I want one! And a rice cooker, too.
Mmm… slow cooker before rice cooker, but yes both would be nice!
MMM, the semi vegetarian in me thanks you. What a great recipe. I love coming home when something has been cooking all day. We typically do chili.
I have seen a recipe for brownies in a slow cooker, we should investigate.
brownies in a slow cooker!!?? oh my… yep, I’m going to look…
I’m probably doing chili in my slow cooker this weekend… yesssss….
And those jalepenos look amazing. I love the extra kick!
Mmm… slow cooker chili is the best!
I love the jalapenos COOKED in this too… they make the whole soup WARM.
Woah this sounds amazing! I love the idea of pureeing one can of black beans so it thickens the soup. Yum!
yes… it makes it very thick and YUMMY!
I looooooooooove my slow cooker! My favorite thing to use it for is jsut this – hearty, filling soups and stews! Love your knife! So cute!
we love ours too… especially in the winter… yep, I love my new knife, even if it sliced me up!
Love my slow cooker! I love just throwing stuff in – beans, tomatoes, spices, veggies – it’s all good:)
exactly!
Girl!! I love black bean soup and I can’t wait to try this fab recipe! Thank you for your healthy recipe today, I love it
Mmmm I love my slow cooker, but haven’t used it for a while now. Time to pull the ol’ slow cooker out.
You know I got the slow cooker from Ryan’s mom one year for christmas and hated it…..now its “pretty good” to have
xxoo
yep – until you use one, you might think “meh”…
then you make something wonderful and want to use it every day!
Sounds really yummy! I am going to have to give this one a try. I think my hubby would really love it, he loves spicy foods.
let me know how you like it!!
Oooh. Delish! I don’t have a slow cooker. I’d love to have one though!
you could make this soup without one…
I’ve never cooked with a slow cooker. I should try it though.
they are awesome… for so much… oats, applesauce, soups, and apparently brownies!
Darling I am thinking, this is JUST the recipe I need to christen the slow cooker I have managed to take off my mum’s hands. Everything about this recipe screams, ease, comfort and warmth. Hmmm I’m looking forward to making it when I get back to my home in a couple of weeks
oh GOOD !! it IS the perfect soup to make as the first recipe
let me know how you like it…
This sounds sooo good! I’m a HUGE fan of jalapeno (like – in love!) I’ll have to try this out!
I read the title on fb and as I clicked on it I go “ohhhhh black bean jalapeno soup”….I was excited just saying it, haha-I love slow cooker recipes, this one seems great-how many servings did it make? I might try and make this for the superbowl if we end up having people over!
this was 6-8 servings or so, if I remember… if you’re having a lot of people over you could double it… that’s what I did for dinner tonight, so I could have some for Superbowl!!
(how will I make “souper bowl” jokes without it??)
sounds great!
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