Everything But Your Kitchen Sink Soup

I've never been a soup person, and yes its a personality trait. I never was a person who craved a soup or thought they were the cure all for sickness. As I started working on my cooking skills though, I decided to try soups out because I married a "soup" person. After chicken and dumplings, tomato soup, potato soup and plenty more I realized what I really wanted was a good brothy soup that I could just throw stuff in and it would magically taste good. My first attempt was from a Tik Tok video that ended up being VERY salty and had ingredients that I rarely keep on hand such as white beans. I can never find canned white beans and I never decide I want anything with beans early enough to soak the dried ones in advance. So I took the base idea of the video and adjusted to something that I knew would consistently work for us. I will provide our usual ingredients but this is something that does really well with adding whatever you want. (This also goes perfect with my bread recipe I previously posted.)

The ingredients:

• Spinach

• Light & Dark red beans

• Chicken Broth

• Minced Garlic

• Rotel

• White or Yellow onion. (red doesn't really pair well here)

1. Chop up your onion, you don't need it chopped super fine for this. If you don't have pre-minced garlic, mince your garlic and drain your beans.

2. Sauté your onion and minced garlic over medium heat with some avocado oil or butter.

3. Throw in your drained beans, Rotel and as much spinach as you want. Cook this until the spinach is wilted down.

4. Add in 2 cups of chicken broth and 3 cups of water. Season how you like, I don't find that this needs much seasoning but I do tend to add pepper and Slap Ya Momma. You won't need more salt and I would personally wait until its cooked fully to taste it and decided then before adding more salt because the broth holds so much sodium.

5. Cover, reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes.

Thats it! If you want to add more protein IN the soup andouille sausage or shredded chicken go well, we've tried both but I like it as a side to my protein. This is the perfect recipe to empty the pantry or fridge of produce and beans!

Other things to try adding in:

-Corn

-Extra diced Tomatoes

-Zuchinni

-Mushrooms

(I would sauté the zucchini and mushrooms with the onions before adding the other stuff.)