Free Recipe Corn, Cilantro and Black Bean Soup (Mf)

Recipe Type: Free Bean Recipes
Recipe Preparation: cook
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Recipe Serves: 1

Ingredients for Corn, Cilantro and Black Bean Soup (Mf) Recipe

2 tb Olive oil
1 Onion (1 cup), finely
-chopped
2 Garlic cloves, minced
1 ts Ground cumin
2 c Chicken broth
4 c Water
1 bn Fresh cilantro (large bn),
-rinsed
10 oz Thawed frozen corn kernels
15 oz Black beans, rinsed and
-drained
1 tb Lime juice, (up to 2)
Salt and cayenne pepper
1/4 c Sour cream, optional,
-regular or low fat
2 tb Pimento, in thin strips

Corn, Cilantro and Black Bean Soup (Mf) Preparation

Heat olive oil in a saucepan. When hot, add the onion, cover and cook over low heat for 5 minutes or until tender. Add the garlic and cumin and saute for 10 seconds to release their aroma. Add the broth and water and bring to a simmer. While the liquid is coming to a simmer, with a knife separate the cilantro leaves from the stems. If you wish, wrap the stems well with string and add to the broth to infuse the liquid with more cilantro flavor. When the liquid is at a simmer, add the corn and beans and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes just to heat the ingredients well. Meanwhile chop the cilantro leaves you need anywhere from 1/2 to 1 cup of chopped leaves. Add the cilantro leaves and immediately remove the soup from the heat. Discard the cilantro stems. Add the lime juice and season to taste with salt and cayenne pepper. Ladle the soup out and garnish each portion with sour cream and garnish the sour cream with pimento. Variation: to turn this into a main course soup, add 12 ounces of strips of raw chicken when you add the beans and corn. Or add 12 ounces chopped cleaned shrimp after you have added the beans and corn and cook for 2 minutes to cook through. Yield: 4 servings Copyright, 1997, TV FOOD NETWORK, G.P., All Rights Reserved MC Busted by Gail Shermeyer by TVFN Website on April 21, 1997 Recipe by: COOKING MONDAY TO FRIDAY SHOW #MF6678 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #609 by 4paws@netrax.net (Shermeyer-Gail) on May 12, 1997

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