Pinto Bean and Sausage Soup
Pinto Bean and Sausage Soup is a gluten free recipe with 8 servings. This recipe covers 29% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 383 calories, 18g of protein, and 15g of fat. 1 person found this recipe to be flavorful and satisfying. It works well as a rather inexpensive main course for Autumn. A mixture of potatoes, salt, carrots, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. To use up the white sugar you could follow this main course with the Whole Wheat Refined Sugar Free Sugar Cookies as a dessert.
Instructions
Cover pinto beans with water in a bowl and allow to soak overnight.
Melt butter in a 6-quart stock pot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and celery in butter until vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes.
Stir garlic into onion mixture until fragrant, about 1 minute more.
Stir beef broth, tomato juice, sugar, and drained pinto beans into the vegetable mixture and bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until beans are tender, about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Mix potatoes, carrots, oregano, salt, and black pepper into the bean soup; simmer until potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes more.
Preheat the oven's broiler and set the oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source.
Place smoked sausage on a baking sheet.
Bake sausage in the preheated oven until browned, about 10 minutes.
Cut sausage into quarters, then slice.
Add sausage and parsley to the soup; continue to simmer for 10 more minutes.