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Julie's Thermomix Mexican Bean Soup

Julie’s Thermomix Mexican Bean Soup

Maria Bravo
A delicious bean soup full of flavour that is delicious served with cheese and tortilla chips
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Course Soup
Cuisine Mexican
Servings 8 people

Equipment

  • Instant Pot or pressure cooker

Ingredients
  

  • 1 red onion
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 red pepper
  • 1 yellow pepper
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tins of chopped tomatoes
  • 1 tin mixed beans OR equivalent drained weight approx. 240 g in homecooked dry beans. I pressure cooked the contents of a Waitrose Love Life 500 g 10 Bean Mix packet in the Instant Pot covered with water. Manual / Pressure Cook, 30 minutes, natural pressure release. Rinse and soak them first.
  • 1 tin green lentils
  • 1 tablespoon Mexican Spice Mix see the blurb for the one I use. You can make my Instant Pot Beef Stew with Mexican Spices with the leftovers OR Schwartz Cajun Spice works well
  • 1 teaspoon of my homemade vegetable stock paste
  • 8 squares of Green & Black’s 70% chocolate optional, more calories but worth it for the flavour

To serve

  • Tortilla chips
  • Limes cut into wedges
  • Wensleydale cheese cheddar or goat's cheese will work great too
  • Cumin seeds toasted

Instructions
 

  • Chop red onion and garlic: 5 seconds, speed 5.
  • Manually chop 1 red and 1 yellow pepper into bite sized bits. Add to bowl.
  • Add oil and sauté 10 mins, Varoma (120ºC in TM5), Reverse, Speed 1.
  • Chuck in the tinned tomatoes, mixed beans and green lentils. Add 1 tablespoon of the Mexican Spice Mix.
  • Fill bowl to just below the MAX line with water and add 1 teaspoon vegetable stock paste. Cook 20 mins, 100ºC, REVERSE, speed 1.

Optional step

  • Add about 6/8 squares of dark chocolate two minutes before the end of cooking time. Make it good dark chocolate, like Green and Black's 70% or highher. It will add real depth of flavour.

How to serve

  • At home we like Mexican Bean Soup served with lime wedges to drizzle the soup with lime juice. A handful of scrunched up tortilla chips (basically, grab a handful and scrunch them up to add them to your soup). Little chunks of Wensleydale. Toasted cumin seeds.

Notes

Note: Have some of the Mexican spice mix left? It goes great in this Instant Pot Beef with Mexican Spices recipe.
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