best black bean soup recipe

looking for something delicious and easy to cook this evening?

here's a recipe that will make your belly smile,

healthy, filling, and you can eat it in many ways for the next week

(adapted from Chris's recipe)

Black Bean Soup (serves 4-6?)

In the pot ingredients:

1 29oz can black beans (they're the bigger ones)

1 15oz can whole corn

1 large onion

1 green bell pepper

1 jar salsa (your choice, but cheap salsa works great)

1 tomato, sliced or 1 can tomatoes

1-3 jalapeno peppers (for the spicy, I'm a 1 jalepeno lady myself)

black pepper

cumin

1/2 bulb of garlic

a little oil

Toppings

cilantro, chopped

1 medium sized bag of tortilla chips or tortillas or tostadas

1 carton nonfat plain greek yogurt (or sour cream)

lime

Steps to Greatness:

• put oil and garlic into bottom of pot and heat at high.
• Chop up all vegetables
• Add onions, jalapenos, green pepper and season with black pepper.
• Cook at high heat until onions are a little translucent and the vegetables are soft.
• Add everything that isn't in the "toppings" category (do not drain the cans of their delicious bean/corn juice, add those into your soup)
• add lots of cumin
• Cook on high heat until it boils, then reduce heat to simmer.
• Adjust with black pepper/cumin to taste.
• Let it simmer between 20min-2hrs (soup should thicken up as the pot simmers. Also, if you have jalapenos in there, the soup will get spicier the longer it simmers.)

Serve with chopped cilantro, a dallop of greek yogurt/sour cream,

and crushed tortilla chips on top!

yummmmmm