Soups On!!

Ok, so I don't have a photo tutorial, but I do have a picture of the finished product. I had a ton of black beans in my cupboard and wanted to use them up. I also had steak tips out and wanted to use those, so I created a soup!

So here is the low down.

Ingredients

1 lb of Steak Tips or 1 Large Rib Eye

4 -14.5 oz cans of Black Beans

29 oz can of Tomato Sauce

1 Tablespoon Beef Minors Paste- This is THE BEST soup base ever. They have all different kinds, chicken, beef, lobster, veggie etc. It is based out of Cleveland Ohio and I found out about it from my cooking classes that I took there. It is amazing! They actually make the broth home made and boil it down until it gets to a paste. You then add it to water to make an amazing broth. Truly, you MUST try it.

1 large onion chopped

1/2 of a small bag of baby carrots

1/2 of a red pepper chopped

3 bay leaves

1-2 Tablespoons Cumin ( I used 2 tablespoons)

1 teaspoon thyme

58oz of water (use the tomato sauce can and fill twice)

1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper

4 cloves of garlic minced

3 tablespoons olive oil

1) Place 2 cans of black beans in a blender with juices. Puree until completly smooth.

2) Place 2 Tablespoons olive oil in a stock pot. Do not turn on heat yet. Add minced garlic and red pepper flakes. Now turn on heat to low. Allow the garlic to come to a slow sizzle. Once you smell the garlic, add in chopped onion, thyme, cumin, bay leaves, red pepper and carrots. Turn heat up to medium. Let this saute for about 5 minutes.

3) Add tomato sauce, water, pureed beans and Minors Paste. Let this simmer on low.

4) Cut steak tips into small chunks.

5) Heat a skillet over high heat. Add in a Tablespoon olive oil.

6)Place 1/3 of the meat in the pan, DO NOT STIR AROUND. Let this get brown for about 2 minutes, THEN stir around. Move to the stock pot, continue until meat is all browned and added to stock pot.

7) Let this simmer for about 4 hours if not longer.

8) When your about 30 minutes from serving the soup. Add the 2 remaining cans of black beans.

9) Top with sourcream.