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Recipe

This soup bears the name of one in my earlier book, How to Eat, but is very different in composition. There are fewer ingredients in it and fewer demands on the cook who makes it. But how could I lose such a title—in this chapter of all places?

The point about this is that it provides a way of using up the sweet, dark liquor that the Coke-cooked ham has left behind. I know I’m extravagant, but as I’m so fond of intoning, I’m never wasteful, and this is a rewarding way of satisfying my need to use up every last thing in the kitchen. It’s not as if you need to make the soup right away; by all means freeze the stock for future soups if you want. In terms of flavor, I dare say it could be used for a variety of soups, but there is an aesthetic factor to be considered—which isn’t the same thing as being queeny about presentation. The point about black beans is that they’re black: what do they care about the color of the stock they’re simmered in? If anything, the sludgy darkness of this liquid enhances their muddy glory.

Yield : Serves 8

Ingredients

  • About 3 cups (18 ounces) dried black beans
  • Coca-Cola ham stock from earlier recipe plus water if needed(Search for Ham in Coca-Cola)
  • Juice of ½ lime
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon ground coriander

To serve:

  • Sour cream
  • Fresh cilantro, chopped
  • Lime wedges

Directions

Cook the black beans in enough Coca-Cola ham stock and water, if needed, to cover by about 2 inches until they’re tender. Let the liquid first come to a boil and then reduce the heat to low and cook, partially covered, for 1 to 1½ hours. Remove about 3 ladles of the soup to a blender, add the lime juice and ground spices, blitz to a muddy purée and stir this back into the pan of soup. And that’s it.

Swirl some sour cream, as you please, into the bowls of soup as you ladle them out and sprinkle with freshly chopped cilantro. Plonk the lime wedges onto the table and let people squeeze the sharp juice into this dense, sweet soup as they eat.

Notes

I never soak black beans: just make sure that when you cook them they get their 10 toxin-destroying minutes of vociferous boiling and you’re off.


© 2002 Nigella Lawson
 

Nutritional Information

Nutrients per serving (% daily value)

Nutritional information does not include sour cream to serve alongside.

Nutritional information is based on using 6 cups of liquid to cover the beans.

254kcal (13%)
83mg (3%)
47g
11g
1g (2%)
0g
0g (1%)
0g
0g
0mg (0%)
2g
16g
128mg
1103mg
2mcg RAE (0%)
3mg (6%)
98mg (10%)
4mg (22%)
 

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