Hearty Kale And Butter Bean Winter Soup: Comfort Food

Hearty Kale And Butter Bean Winter Soup: Comfort Food.

Hello friends.

Hearty Kale and Butter Bean Winter Soup, anyone?

Hearty Kale And Butter Bean Winter Soup: Comfort Food

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

50g TOTAL Classic Greek Yoghurt

½ onion, diced

½ sprig of thyme

Squirt of low calorie spray oil

1 clove of garlic, crushed

1 tins butter beans, washed and drained

500ml litre vegetable stock

100g curly kale, washed and chopped

Hearty Kale And Butter Bean Winter Soup: Comfort Food

Method:

1.) Fry off the onion and thyme in a squirt of oil until soft. 

2.) Add the garlic, butter beans and vegetable stock.

3.) Cook for approximately 20 minutes until the beans are soft and mushy.

4.) Fold in the kale and cook for a further 10 minutes until the kale is wilted and soft.

5.) Divide the soup into two parts, blitz one portion and then mix back together with the rest of the soup. 

6.) Place a spoonful of Greek yoghurt in the middle of each bowl, season to taste and serve with some warm, crusty bread.

Chef’s Tip:

To spice the soup up a little, try adding a little pan-fried chorizo sausage to the soup before serving.

Nutritional Information:

245 Calories
12g Protein
4.5g Fat
2 g Saturated Fat
25g Carbohydrate
5g Sugar
0.8g Salt

Hearty Kale And Butter Bean Winter Soup: Comfort Food.

Recipe and photo credit by-Total Greek yoghurt.

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6 Comments

  1. New Covent Garden Soup Co
    18 May 2012 / 11:37

    Hi there, we've just spotted this soup and think it looks like a delicious warming recipe!We've got a competition going on our website, to find a winter warmer soup for our 'Soup of the Month' competition, and we'd love it if you could to enter one of your recipes (or maybe more?).

  2. 1 February 2012 / 17:01

    crocheted Little Things; thanks for stopping by and following,going to follow back :0)

  3. 1 February 2012 / 17:00

    Hi Carol thanks for the comment, the USA name is Lima 🙂

  4. Crocheted Little Things
    1 February 2012 / 13:09

    Following from the Wednesday Handmade Hop! your recipes are soooo yummy!

  5. Carol L McK
    1 February 2012 / 12:42

    Oh ~ this sounds wonderful ~ but I wonder butter beans? In the USA have not heard of these ~ is there another name? namaste, cArol (A Creative Harbor) ps ~ thanks for coming by ~ enjoy the day ^_^