A delicious and comforting recipe to warm your soul!

Here's Mama Nell's mouthwatering French Market Bean Soup recipe, packed with various beans and flavorful sausage. This easy-to-follow recipe will guide you step-by-step to create a bowl of goodness--without the side effects.

French Market Bean Soup

Ingredients

1 and1/2 cups bean mixture

Hambone & trimmings ( or sausage, shrimp, chicken)

1 can tomatoes

1 onion, chopped

1/2 clove garlic, minced

Juice of 1 lemon

1 green banana pepper or hot sauce to taste

Salt and pepper to taste

Bean Mixture: navy beans, great northern, baby limas, large limas, pintos, red kidney beans, small red Japanese beans, lentils, and barley. OR--simply buy a packet of 15 bean soup mix and discard the flavor packet.

Serves 10-12. The bean soup mix serves 16, so you can add more of the other ingredients if you want to use the whole packet of beans.

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Mama Nell's Grandson's Hot Sauce --check out the Powerful Pepper Company!

Directions

Wash beans and soak overnight

Drain and add water (about 6 cups)

Add bone and/or meat & simmer 3 hours ( see note before proceeding)

Add remaining ingredients and cook 30 min.

Note:

The following method will rid beans of hard-to-digest carbohydrates that cause stomach distress:

Soak overnight. The next day, discard soaking water, bring legumes to a boil in fresh water, and simmer covered for 30 min. Drain and discard water. At this point add fresh water and commence cooking the soup.