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Good morning my friends, a very nice food for those cold days of winter , join me at this Or I will help you create this at your home

Ingredients

500 g medium white beans
2-3 carrots
2 onions
3 sprigs of celery
leaves of celery or celery
3 sec. Garlic (optional)
1 tbsp tomato paste
1 grated tomato
2-3 bay leaves
1 cube of chicken or vegetables
thyme or rosemary
1 Red hot pepper
2 liters of hot water (approximately)
olive oil, salt, pepper

Preparation

We start by putting the beans overnight in a large bowl with plenty of cold water, put a kitchen paper on top and leave it out of the fridge.
The next day we put water in a pot and when it boils we add the beans.
Boil until they soften a little (not completely) and strain them.
Cut the onion into small pieces, the carrots into slices and the celery into slices.
Put olive oil in the same pot and sauté the onion, carrot and celery and the leaves, chopped for 2-3 minutes on a medium heat, just enough to soften, not to take on color.
If you want, add the garlic.
Then add the pulp, sauté for a while and then the beans, the cube, the tomato and the bay leaf.
Finally add the herbs of your choice, pepper and hot water.
Cover with a lid and cook for about 1 hour on medium heat.
If necessary, add extra hot water.
When we extinguish the bean soup, we add olive oil to bind it nicely.
Serve our bean soup with feta cheese, salted fish, boukovo and freshly baked bread.

The secrets for bean soup:

We choose white beans and not the yellowed ones because if it has changed color it goes to say that it is from last year.
We want a large utensil to soak
If you want to soak them at the last minute, put them in boiling water and leave them there for 1 hour.
Legumes always want a low temperature to boil so as not to break
You can never know how long it will take you to cook them because it depends on how boiled your beans are.
The beans are different, so it is good to check them often after a while.
If the beans are of good quality they do not need soda along with water when
we put them in the evening to inflate.
If your beans are indigestible, it is good to throw away the water you will boil (the first one) and not to use it again.

Stay safe and healthy my friends and take care of your people

My best wishes from Greece