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Default Soup with lima beans?

"Peppermint Patootie" > wrote in message
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>I have a culinary challenge.
>
> I want to repay a coworker for doing me a work favor by making him some
> homemade soup. I suggested bean soup, and he said he loved lima beans.
> Can anyone suggest a soup that has lima beans as a main ingredient?
>
> Other possible ingredients: I have a one pound package of "chili cut"
> wild boar defrosting in the fridge. I also will probably be going by a
> favorite Asian market tomorrow after church. They have pork neck bones
> there.
>
> So, my mind is musing on a pork and lima bean soup. I'm assuming there
> will be a strong stock, probably from pork neck bones I brown in the
> oven. Onions are a given. For some reason I'm seeing them as very thin
> half-circles.
>
> But what seasoning? And should there be a bit of darker green in there?
> Maybe dark green leaves from bok choy? How about cilantro?
>
> Do Asians use anything like lima beans? Right now I'm mentally tasting
> an Asian pork soup flavored with coriander leaves (cilantro) and also
> containing onion and lima bean.
>
> Thought? Suggestions?
>
> PP




I would make a soup like that with limagrands, those big white dried lima
beans.

For the stock I would use a small porkette ham or a ham bone.

Soak the beans over night first (best way) or do a quick soak same day....
bring to a boil, let stand for an hour and then throw that water away and do
it a second time and cook them with your ham.

Add chopped celery, carrot, onion, garlic (generous) a potato, bay leaf,
salt.

Cook it till the limas are really nice and soft.

Take out the porkette, chop the ham up and return it to the soup.

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