Chick Pea Soup
Delicious and simple this soup can be made in minutes and can be a meal in itself
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 2 cans,
garbanzo beans
- 4 cups,
Chicken broth
- 1 sprig,
Fresh rosemary
- 1 clove,
garlic
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whole
- 1 small,
hot chili pepper
- 3 tablespoons,
extra virgin olive oil
- salt and pepper
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to taste
- truffle oil
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to taste
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Method
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Heat olive oil in large high sided pot
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Add garlic clove, chili pepper and rosemary sprig, cook for a minute or two but do not brown garlic
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Add the cans of garbanzo beans with liquid and 3 cups of chicken stock, bring to a boil
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Reduce heat to medium and cook mixture for 20 - 25 minutes -- there should be only a few bubbles. Add more stock if necessary.
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Remove one fourth of the garbanzo beans and set aside. Remove the chili pepper and strip the remaining rosemary from the sprig.
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With a blending wand, puree the liquid and the remaining garbanzo beans in the pot. When done return the reserved garbanzo beans to the pot.
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Season to taste with salt and pepper and serve in bowls.
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Drizzle with truffle oil over the top of each bowl for that extra touch.
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You may add bits of broken spagetti or cubes of toasted day-old bread. The pasta should be added after the puree occurs. Cook the pasta in the pureed broth about 10 minutes.