Creamy bean soup from Fiefhusen

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 250 g beans, green, frozen
• 250 g kidney beans, drained (contents of a small can)
• 1 spring onion(s), cut into rings
• ½ pear(s), ripe, peeled and diced
• 800 ml chicken broth
• ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
• ½ tsp savory, dried and shredded
• 2 tbsp, heaped flour
• 1 tbsp butter
• 100 ml whipped cream
• n. B. Salt and pepper, black, freshly ground, to taste
• n. B. chives as garnish

Instructions

Working time approx. 10 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 20 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

with green and kidney beans and a hint of pear, vegetarian

Bring the chicken broth to a boil in a large saucepan. Blanch the green beans gently for about 5 minutes. Remove about half of the beans with a slotted spoon and rinse under cold running water. Drain and set aside to cool. Quarter the pear. Peel two of the quarters, remove the core, stems, and blossom ends. Roughly dice the pear and add to the broth with the other half of the beans. Add the cayenne pepper and savory and simmer gently for about 10 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and blend thoroughly with an immersion blender. Strain through a fine sieve. Stir the flour into the soup (a blender works well) and simmer gently for 2 to 3 minutes to thicken the soup and remove the flour flavor. Stir the butter and cream into the soup. Season to taste with salt and freshly ground pepper. For the garnish, cut the cooled green beans into spoonable lengths and the spring onions into not-too-thin rings. Add both to the soup along with the kidney beans and let them warm up briefly. Serve on warmed plates. Grind over a touch of pepper and garnish with some chives. Tips: This basic soup is truly chameleon and can be cooked in many different ways using different ingredients. Simply swap the green beans for the same amount of snow peas, use frozen green peas instead of kidney beans, and use mint instead of savory. A green apple goes wonderfully with the pear. The cooking technique remains completely the same. Or perhaps try a combination of beets, bell peppers, red grapes, and cumin.