A hearty winter soup with beautiful color, subtle flavors, and velvety texture.
Ingredients
- Great Northern beans: 1 pound (dried)
- vegetable oil: 2 Tbsp
- onion: 1 piece (chopped)
- garlic: 3 clove (minced)
- bay leaves: 3 piece
- quarts water: 2 piece
- cubes chicken bouillon: 2 piece
- butternut squash - peeled, seeded, and cut into chunks: 2 pound
- carrots: 2 cups (chopped)
- stalks celery: 2 piece (chopped)
- ½ teaspoons salt: 2 piece
- ground black pepper: 0.75 tsp
- ground white pepper: 0.75 tsp
- ground ginger: 0.5 tsp
- allspice: 0.5 tsp
- pre-cooked chicken sausage: 1 pack (12 ounce pack, cut into bite-size pieces)
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Place Great Northern beans into a large container and cover with several inches of cool water; let stand 8 hours to overnight. Drain.
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Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic in the hot oil until onion is translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Add bay leaves and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
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Mix beans, water, and bouillon into onion mixture; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover pot, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until beans are tender, about 1 hour.
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Stir squash, carrots, celery, salt, black pepper, white pepper, ginger, and allspice into broth mixture; simmer until squash and carrots are tender, about 20 minutes.
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Remove bay leaves from broth mixture and discard. Scoop 2 to 3 cups of vegetable-bean mixture using a slotted spoon from broth; blend broth and remaining vegetable-bean mixture using a hand blender until smooth. Return the vegetable-bean mixture to broth mixture and stir in sausage. Simmer soup until sausage is cooked through, 5 to 10 more minutes.
