Split Pea Soup

Pea soup has probably been around for about 10,000 years, since peas where one of the first crops to be domesticated. This recipe features tender carrots and ham.

Pasta e Fagioli Freschi

Pasta e fagioli freschi is a version of pasta e fagioli made with fresh, rather than dried, beans.

Pasta e Ceci

Pasta e ceci is an Italian soup, made with small pasta and chickpeas.

Pasta e Fagioli

Pasta e fagioli is an Italian soup with small pasta and beans. My version is tomato based and made with canned beans.

Jota

Jota is a soup made with beans, smoked pork, and sauerkraut, which hails from the Istrian peninsula at the northeastern end of the Adriatic.

Pretepena Juha od Grahova

Pretepena Juha od Grahova is a Croatian bean soup thickened with a mixture of flour and sour cream.

Frijoles Charros

Frijoles charros, or “cowboy beans”, is a traditional Mexican soup featuring pinto beans and bacon.

Fazulovika

Fazulovika is a thick Slovak soup, made with smoked meat and beans, flavored with paprika and marjoram, and usually thickened with a roux, or mixture of cream and flour.

Further exploration of Plantain Dumplings, aka Asopao de Gandules, version 2.

I’m considering this a failed recipe, shared to document my journey, not because I think you should try it. I set out to look at plantain dumpling recipes, but there’s several different types of plantain dumplings and I didn’t focus in on a specific one, so my recipe wound up kind of tough and chewy. On top of that, the soup recipe I came up with lacks seasoning.